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Cranes

1. Port Said Shipyard Cranes:

Main specifications	Enkaz II	Emlak	Bahgat Badawi	Khalifa
Max. Lifting Capacity (Ton)	500	200	100	40
Max. Lifting Height (m)	60	33	40	18
Outreach :
Main Hook (m)	15	8.8	10	15.5
Aux. Hook (m)	40	28.8	30	32

2. Port Tawfik Shipyard Cranes:

Zaki Younis

Main specifications	Enkaz I	Zaki Younis
Max. Lifting Capacity (Ton)	500	100
Max. Lifting Height (m)	60	40
Outreach :
Main Hook (m)	15	10
Aux. Hook (m)	40	30

3. Dredging Department Cranes:

Main specifications	Shamekh
Load capacity(Ton)	80
Main engine (HP)	2 x 635 1 x 122

4. Transit Department Cranes:

Arafat

Main specifications	Arafat	Naieam-Bakr-Aulwy
Max. Lifting Capacity	40/16(Ton/m)	25 (Ton)
Max. Lifting Height	32(m)
Aux. Hook	10/24 (Ton/m)

Naieam - Bakr - Aulwy

Canal History

13th century BCE, A canal is constructed between the Nile Delta and the Red Sea. For the following centuries, the canal was only partially maintained...

1854, By a French initiative, the viceroy of Egypt, Said Pasha, decides for a project to build a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea...

1858, La Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez is formed to construct the canal.

17 Nov 1869, With great splendour, the canal is opened for navigation. Dimensions were 22 metre in bottom width, 58 metre in surface width, and a depth of 8 metres...