The largest dredger in the Middle East arrived in the Suez Canal on Tuesday from the Netherlands as part of modernization of equipment on the Egyptian waterway.
In a statement Tuesday, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said a dredger now named after Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the former chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, boarded a diving Tai An Kou and will wait in the Bitter Lakes to be floating apart from the ship.
Later there will be a big ceremony of raising the Egyptian flag on it. Hussein Tantawi is 147.4 meters long and 23 meters wide. It has a draft of 5.5 meters and a capacity of 3600 square meters of sand per hour on a floating emission line with a length of 4 kilometers. It also has a total capacity of 29,190 kilowatts and can handle all types of soils, including rocky.
Hussein Tantawi will take part in duplicating, expanding and deepening the navigation course after the Dutch side completes the test.