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Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Regional Analysis

Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA  After the problem with the Ever Given in the Suez Canal, the Egyptian government is said to be looking at the possibility of expanding the canal. There has also been some talk of a new canal from the Gulf of Aqaba, through Israel, to the Mediterranean. Officials in Egypt have been quoted as saying that the grounding was the result of an error by the ship’s captain and not due to the high winds and the dust storm.       Egypt has started a new system of import pre-clearance that it says will “modernize and automate customs administration, simplify procedures and reduce clearance times”. The system started on 1 April on a test basis with ful...

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