The dredging of the Suez Canal from 1880. Credit: Tropen Museum/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 The “new” Suez Canal, which was officially inaugurated on August 6, 2015, changed the world of shipping, ...
In the shadow of global trade realignments and rising tensions with the West, China is quietly reshaping the way goods flow between Asia and Europe—without touching the sea. In the mountainous ...
An illustration of opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On November 17, 1869, the esteemed guests of Ismaʻil Pasha, Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, gathered on the ...