INTERVIEW: Suez Canal - The only choice

In a comprehensive interview with Al-Ahram, Lieutenant-General Osama Rabie, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, stresses that "there is no alternative" to the Suez Canal.

In his interview with Al-Ahram, Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie reveals many details about this key global waterway and the unprecedented upgrading it has witnessed in recent years as part of the overall development plans in the country.

This interview comes in conjunction with the celebrations of the anniversary of the 1973 October War victory, and deals with the details in the ongoing saga of the second “crossing” of the Suez Canal, which started with the building of the New Suez Canal a few years back.