{"id":1435,"date":"2006-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2006\/03\/01\/suez-digs-deeper\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:30:12","slug":"suez-digs-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/middle-east\/suez-digs-deeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Suez digs deeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project, which commenced in 2001, will have cost US$250m to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Once fully implemented, the entire global container fleet will be able to pass through the Canal, along with 99% of the bulk fleet and 60.4% of the tanker fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The additional 4 feet will boost maximum vessel capacity from 210,000dwt to 240,000dwt. Future 18,000TEU container vessels will also be accommodated without problem.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic has arisen from 14,142 vessels in 2000 to around 18,000 today. In revenue terms, container vessels contribute 52% of total revenue, with oil tankers generating a further 22%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of the year, the Suez Canal Authority will have deepened the draught of the Canal from 62 to 66 feet to accommodate the next generation of large vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}