scholarly journals Spectral fatigue analyses comparison study: Suez Canal vs. Cape of Good Hope Arab Academy for Science, Technologies and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-265
Author(s):  
Mohamed Essallamy ◽  
Alaa Abdel Bari ◽  
Mohamed Kotb
Keyword(s):  
Suez Canal ◽  
Maritime Transport ◽  
Comparison Study ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope

scholarly journals Risk analysis of oil transportation from the Persian Gulf to America in connection with the Suez Canal reconstruction

2021 ◽  
Vol 326 ◽  
pp. 00002
Author(s):  
Larisa Pershina ◽  
Liudmila Astreina
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
Small Vessels ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
Oil Transportation ◽  
Ship Security ◽  
The Persian Gulf

The tonnage capacity of the Suez Canal has almost doubled since its reconstruction. The risk analysis of oil and oil products transportation is carried out in the paper, considering this factor from the Persian Gulf to America, and in order to reveal the economic efficiency of the existing recommended routes. According to the research outcomes and calculations, it is proved that the most expensive path is the route through the Suez Canal. It can be profitable on a short haul for transportation to the countries of the Mediterranean Basin and Western Europe due to the low tariff plan for small vessels of the LRl, MR, Handymax, Handysize classes and doubling the freight by reducing the transit time over short distances. An analysis of the probable routes from the Persian Gulf to North America through the Suez Canal and bypassing Africa is carried out in the paper. The economic effect calculation of oil transportation is conducted using the example of the Sea Vigor tanker of the Suezmax class through the Suez Canal and the Cape of Good Hope, considering the distance, the cost of escorting ships through the Suez Canal, the risk assessment and cost of ship security services, the calculation of wind-wave losses of routes bypassing the African continent. Besides, the conclusions and recommendations are formulated in the paper.

The Suez Canal as an International Waterway

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halford L. Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Far East ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
British Government ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Peace And War

The Suez Canal, opened for general use on November 17, 1869, more than justified the gloomy predictions of its opponents that it would become “un second Bosphore.” Abbreviating by hundreds or thousands of miles the transit distance between important parts of the globe, it wrought a kind of revolution in maritime activities and particularly in strategical concepts of peace and war. Its consummation brought to an end more than a score of years of controversy marked by the efforts of the British Government to quash a project certain to destroy the monopoly of sea access to East Africa and the Middle and Far East via the Cape of Good Hope. Until 1869 the protection of British interests in the East had required only the maintenance of naval supremacy among the European States and a close surveillance of the Eastern Mediterranean with Malta and Constantinople as points of vantage. The cutting through of the Isthmus of Suez instantly destroyed previous schemes of British strategy by giving an almost infinite extension to the shores of the Mediterranean. With a similar projection of the problems of the Mediterranean, fundamental changes in planning and procedure, both by Great Britain and by other European States having maritime interests, were unavoidable.

scholarly journals Multiobjective Route Selection Based on LASSO Regression: When Will the Suez Canal Lose Its Importance?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jingmiao Zhou ◽  
Yuzhe Zhao ◽  
Jiayan Liang
Keyword(s):  
Real Data ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Route Selection ◽  
Lasso Regression ◽  
Fuel Price ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
Weighted Sum Method ◽  
Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization

With coronavirus disease 2019 reshaping the global shipping market, many ships in the Europe-Asia trades that need to sail through the Suez Canal begun to detour via the much longer route, the Cape of Good Hope. In order to explain and predict the route choice, this paper employs the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression to estimate fuel consumption based on the automatic identification system and ocean dataset and designed a multiobjective particle swarm optimization to find Pareto optimal solutions that minimize the total voyage cost and total voyage time. After that, the weighted sum method was introduced to deal with the route selection. Finally, a case study was conducted on the real data from CMA CGM, a leading worldwide shipping company, and four scenarios of fuel prices and charter rates were built and analyzed. The results show that the detour around the Cape of Good Hope is preferred only in the scenario of low fuel price and low charter. In addition, the paper suggests that the authority of Suez Canal should cut down the canal toll according to our result to win back the ships because we have verified that offering a discount on the canal roll is effective.

Settlers and Seaways in a Decolonised World

1985 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Jean Houbert
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The North ◽  
Land Mass ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Way

Seawaysand settlers were closely associated with the creation of the European colonial empires which radially changed the course of modern history. That expansion was triggered off by the search for a way round the Arab monopoly to the riches of the Orient, and the massive land-mass of Africa was in the way. The European sailors looked westwards across the uncharted ocean and the search led, inadvertently, to America where the New World of settlers was brought into being. Southwards, skirting the rim of the African continent, the seamen finally discovered the great sea route to the Orient round the Cape of Good Hope: there another world of settlers grew up closely linked to the seaway. Long after, with Europe's supremacy over the oceans well established, the Suez Canal was cut, and the old route to the East round the north of Africa was re-opened. Later, EuropeanJewish settlers were implanted in the area.

Tourists Along the Nile

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
Cost Of Living ◽  
Bubonic Plague ◽  
British Raj ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
John Gardner

Until 1830, the traveler to India faced a long, and often stormy, passage around the Cape of Good Hope. The advent of the steamship changed everything. Now you could take a steamer from England or Marseilles to Alexandria, then spend a few days or weeks in Cairo waiting for news that the ship for India was approaching Suez. You then took a camel, horse, or wagon across the desert to meet the vessel at what was then a small village. Hotels opened in Suez and Cairo to accommodate transit passengers. The British Hotel in Cairo, soon to be renamed Shepheard’s Hotel after its manager, welcomed its first guests in 1841. This magnificent Victorian institution became world famous, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, when it became the hotel of choice for the British Raj on its way to and from India. The hotel also catered to a new breed, the archaeological tourist. Bubonic plague epidemics periodically claimed thousands of lives in Egypt until 1844, when it suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Cholera arrived from India to take its place, but despite this scourge, Egypt became a recommended destination for travelers wishing to escape damp European winters. By this time, a journey up the Nile to the First Cataract was routine, although one had to endure long quarantines on account of the plague. Nile travel became so popular that the London publisher John Murray commissioned the Egyptologist John Gardner Wilkinson to write a guide, one of a series aimed at a new audience of middle-class tourists.Wilkinson traveled in style, his baggage requiring a small army of porters. The contents of his baggage included an iron bedstead, a sword and other oddities, and “much more,” including a chicken coop, ample biscuits (cookies), and potted meats. He lamented the high cost of living in Egypt and the changes brought by a rising tide of visitors. “The travelers who go up the Nile will I fear soon be like Rhine tourists. & Cheapside will pour out its Legions upon Egypt.” His Handbook for Travellers in Egypt first appeared in 1847, went through multiple editions until 1873, and was still in common use half a century after its first appearance.

Afterword. Islands and the British Empire

2021 ◽  
pp. 192-204
Author(s):  
H. V. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
Maritime Transport ◽  
Nodal Points ◽  
The Relationship

This concluding chapter draws together, and reflects upon, the themes and strands that have emerged in the volume as a whole. In addition, however, it examines the relationship between islands and empire during a time of unprecedented change in maritime transport, as new steam technology began to free ships, navies, and trading companies from the constraints hitherto imposed upon them by winds and tides. It looks at the ways in which the nodal points of Britain’s overseas network of islands changed as voyage patterns altered, and it considers the effect that this had upon the distribution of imperial outposts and possessions. The chapter concludes with a brief consideration of how the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869—perhaps the most widely heralded symbol of the transition from the age of sail to the age of steam—affected longstanding relationships between islands and far-flung imperial possessions.

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