Before Saturday, the canal, a global shipping route, was considered off-limits by protesters, correspondents say.
The waterway is a vital shipping route and remains one of Egypt's main sources of foreign revenue.
The Spratlys lie amid rich fishing grounds and across the main shipping route from Europe to East Asia.
Even so, this Arctic shipping route is likely to be the focus of intense interest by China over the next decade.
His successor at the helm of the world's first tin canning business, John Gamble, moved the factory to Cork in Ireland in 1830, where there was a larger supply of cattle and the shipping route to the US offered an endless supply of custom.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: His economic proposals, and that is the issue that most Mexicans are interested in, revolve around the campaign of public spending, a new overland shipping route that will rival the Panama Canal, high-speed railways connecting cities and the planting of a million acres of furniture-grade forest will provide the jobs.
It was intercepted in a cardboard shipping tube en route to the same gallery.
As well as presumed mineral riches under the sea bed, the sea lanes are a vital route for shipping.
Billions could be saved on shipping if an easy overland route was developed from Southeast Asia to India and more Westerly nations.
Credit Suisse estimates that 35% of China COSCO's revenue and 32% of China Shipping Container Lines' comes from the Asia-Europe route, while earnings from European trade for the country's port operators varies between 7.3% to 34.1%.
But the route cuts as much as three weeks from shipping times between Europe and Asia.
When a shipping company--foreign or domestic--needs to change a route, a vessel or a port of call, it has to ask the harbour association six weeks in advance.
Shipping companies are now weighing up the risks of using the short-cut route to Europe via the Suez canal.
Taking that concept another step, Guo figured that his startup would make the transactions seamless, shipping directly from the factories to the home and skipping over the more traditional wholesaler route.
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It also means that spare pallets take the most economical route from a retailer's loading dock back to a warehouse or factory that is shipping out goods.
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