Egypt said today it would build a new 72-km (45-mile) canal alongside the Suez Canal.

"This giant project will be the creation of a new Suez Canal parallel to the current channel of a total length of 72 kilometres," Mohab Mamish, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority told a conference in Ismailia, a port town on the Suez Cana.

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