How Egypt Dug a 35 km Second Channel Beside the Suez Canal in One Year

The New Suez Canal was built in 12 months in 2014 and 2015: a 35 kilometer parallel channel, 24 meters deep and 317 meters wide at the water surface, plus 37 kilometers of deepening and widening in the existing bypasses, for 72 kilometers of work in total. The operation moved about 258.8 million cubic meters of wet dredging and 250 million cubic meters of dry excavation, using 45 dredgers and 20 sedimentation basins, and peaked at 1.73 million cubic meters in a single day on 31 May 2015. It was financed domestically by selling investment certificates to Egyptian citizens at 12%, later raised to 15.5%. This documentary covers the engineering, the projections that were sold with it, and the 2021 grounding that happened in the section that was not widened. What's in this video: Why a canal with no locks is limited by passing places, not by depth Why the project delivered 37% of two-way channel, not a doubled canal What bank effect and squat actually do to a 400 meter ship in a narrow channel Why the "$9.6 billion a day" figure is not a loss, and what the real loss was Subscribe to FRONTIER MEGABUILDS to understand the machines, decisions and engineering behind the projects built at the edge of possible. #SuezCanal #Megaprojects #HowItsMade #Egypt #Dredging #Engineering #CivilEngineering #Construction #EverGiven #Shipping #Maritime #FullProcess #Logistics #Trending IMPORTANT: ABOUT THIS VIDEO ------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an educational documentary analyzing the engineering and construction of public infrastructure, based entirely on open-source information. All visuals and animations are 100% synthetic, AI-generated conceptual representations. No real footage of the construction sites or personnel was used. This video is purely informational and intended for educational purposes only.