Dredging work on Suez to extend double lane

The Suez Canal Authority has started dredging work to extend a second lane that allows for twoway traffic in a southern section of the canal near where a giant container ship got stuck for six days in March, it said on Saturday. The authority announced last week that it planned to extend a second canal lane that opened in 2015 by 10 kilometers to make it 82 km long, and would widen and deepen a single lane stretch at the southern end of the canal. The grounding of the 440meter container ship Ever Given in a southern section of the canal from March 23 to 29 delayed the passage of vessels, disrupting global trade.