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Dredging 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.b

• eloff 6y ago
  Dredging 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.