A key shipping route through Egypt recently received a major overhaul.
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Modern international shipping meets the ancient world in the famous canal.
Ships line up to pass each other in the Suez Canal’s Great Bitter Lake in this astronaut photo from October 2, 2009.
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This astronaut photograph captures a northbound convoy of cargo ships entering the Mediterranean Sea from the Suez Canal in Egypt.
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This passage through the Peloponnese Peninsula was 2500 years in the making.
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Sediment plumes reveal busy shipping lanes leading toward ports in northern China.
Acquired December 17, 2010, this natural-color image shows a sediment-laden Lago Alajuela, a reservoir of the Panama Canal.
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The largest irrigation canal in the world and a key landmark along the U.S.-Mexico border shows up in this astronaut photograph. This image captures about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) of the important infrastructure corridor just west of Yuma, Arizona.
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