In the modern era the Suez Canal reduced the role of the sea to that of thoroughfare, between the Atlantic and Asia.

进入现代社会，苏伊士运河的开通，陆运代替了海运，成为连接大西洋和亚洲的主角。

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For the past year the European Union has deployed its first-ever joint naval force, named Operation Atalanta, to protect ships passing in and out of the Red Sea on their way from or to the Suez canal.

在过去的一年里，欧盟组建了第一支联合海军舰队——亚特兰大行动，保护由经苏伊士运河进出红海的船只。

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The location of Eritrea gives it an advantage of controlling the sea route through the Suez Canal.

厄立特里亚独特的地理位置为其通过苏伊士运河控制航线提供了很大的优势。

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Fresh from constructing a sea-level canal through the flat Egyptian sand, de Lesseps was determined, without having set foot in Panama and after only the vaguest of topographical studies, that his project through the mountainous central American isthmus would also be a sea-level canal, requiring no locks to cope with changes in altitude.

ECONOMIST: The Panama Canal

It is also short of water, which must be constantly replenished, because much of the canal is above sea-level.

ECONOMIST: The Panama canal

The company's international headquarters in Zaandam is a squat, four-story building in the food-processing district along the North Sea canal.

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