Manpower minister offers in-kind aid to workers at new Suez Canal project

 Manpower Minister Nahed el-Ashri and Ismailia Governor Ahmad el-Qasas visited the digging location of the new Suez Canal project to offer in-kind aid to workers.
The minister handed over wool blankets and garments to the workers.
On August 5, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi attended the inauguration of the waterway to be dug alongside the Suez Canal.
It is meant to add an extra lane to the Suez Canal, one of the world's most important thoroughfares for trade, in an attempt to increase the number of ships using it each day.
The Suez Canal, which allows ships to travel from Europe to Asia without passing through southern Africa, only provides for one-way traffic, with occasional room for ships to pass each other.
The new lane would allow ships to travel in both directions at the same time.