Mohamed Sakr, the head of navigational management department at the Suez Canal Authority, told Al-Ahram that different size ships will participate in the trial.
He added that the new 72km canal will have ten guidance stations.
Mohab Mamesh, the head of the Suez Canal Authority, said on Monday that 97.2 percent of the project had been completed.
According to Aswat Masryia, workers have finished dredging 250 million square meters of earth for the new route, as well as digging 70 million square meters for the expansion of the Ballah Bypass located on the western edge of the canal.
The government will fund the grand opening ceremony on 6 August through donations from the public and contributions from participating dredging companies to avoid any burdens on the state budget, Mamesh said last month.
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ReplyDeleteThe new waterway, which President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hopes will help expand trade along the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia and give a boost to Egypt's economy, will be formally inaugurated on Aug. 6.
Sisi wants the canal to become a symbol of national pride and to help combat Egypt's double-digit unemployment. The old Suez Canal is already a vital source of hard currency for Egypt, which has seen tourism and foreign investment drain away in the years of turmoil since a 2011 uprising.
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