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Canal
entrance: The canal is 11.3 km long and 300 m wide ,
this gradually decreases until it reaches 250 m at water
break and 15 m depth. The canal is surrounded by 18
buoys which are lit at night, odd numbers on the right
and even numbers on the left, There is an external
waiting area.
Water Break:
The western waterbreak is 1640 m long, 140 m are in land
and 1500 m in the sea. The Eastern waterbreak is 738
long, 200 in land and 538 m in the sea. The waterbreaks
are protected from the external side the industrial
acrid bocks and they are topped by a cement layer.
Barge
channel: It consists of two ports one is 1350 m that
links the barges dock to the sea and other is 3750 m
that links to the dock to the Nile branch.
The area of the barge dock is 250 x 250 m and it is
equipped with a berth of 250 m long where water depth is
5 m deep.
Diameter of the rotation dock is 500 m and its depth is
14.5 m in front of the containers broth and 12 m in
front the general cargo berths
Port
dimension: An imaginary line links between the two ends
of the external eastern and western break waters
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