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The canal was expanded in 2015 to support bigger ships. You can lookup how long that took and treat it is a lower bound because this would not have most of the
by eloff 6y ago
The canal was expanded in 2015 to support bigger ships. You can lookup how long that took and treat it is a lower bound because this would not have most of the work already done like when expanding the existing canal.
- midasuni 6y agoDredging a 35-kilometers-long and 24-meters-deep shipping route in a year https://www.magazine.boskalis.com/issue02/suez-canal-expansion https://www.magazine.boskalis.com/issue02/suez-canal-expansi...
- eloff 6y agoDredging is so much easier than digging, but it still works as a very conservative lower bound. That's 3km a month, so a diversion of 6km would take at least 2 months. But earthworks of that size have to be planned and approved and the labor organized. It could never be done in that time frame.