Note
Port-Fouad: the workshops of the company |
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Collection title
Memory of the Suez CanalID
BIB00019Source
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)First broadcast date
1927Production year
1927Abstract
The archives of the Suez Canal provide a fundamental interest, both from the point of view of the history of technology and engineering (the Suez Canal was the first to have been dug by mechanical means), and that of the naval and economic history. This archive shows the company having carried its workshops to Asia bank, opposite Port-Said. The company had to build houses in the area to accommodate its staff; the creation of the city of Port-Fouad which has now 500 houses thus dates back to 1920. The main workshops with modern equipment employ about 1.200 workers. The total area of the earth platform is 15 hectares, the docks are 2 km long and the water surface is 16 hectares. The central station with a capacty of 2.200 kilowatts produces the necessary energy for the workshops, the water plants and the lighting of the port.Type
videoProduction companies
- Association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal - Own production
Broadcaster
Bibliotheca AlexandrinaAudiovisual form
Library footagePrimary theme
Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.Secondary themes
- Tourism and cultural sites / Urbanism and cities / Main harbours
Period of events
- From 1925 to 1950
Map locations
- Egypt - Lower Egypt - Port-Fouad
Original language
FrenchMedia running time
2m40Additional information
With the kind permission of the association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal.
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