After the Ever Given ship grounding incident in the Suez Canal had halted the global maritime trade for 6 days, the call for widening the canal grew in demand. And now the Suez Canal Authority has announced that the canal will be widened and deepened at the narrow stretch where the ship ran aground on March 23rd.
The Egyptian government has revealed that the canal would be widened by 40 metres in the area where the vessel was stuck.
As the ship remained stuck for 6 days and workers had been...