On 6 August 2015, a second Suez Canal was opened by Egyptian Prime Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The 70 km long canal was dredged by international consortiums, with contributions from the Belgian companies Jan De Nul Group and DEME and was completed in only one year. The figure above shows PROBA-V 100 m images of the original Suez canal (2 July 2014, top view) and the newly dredged second canal (18 July 2015, bottom view).