Suez Canal Mooring And Light Company

The suez canal was financed by the suez canal company a joint stock company headquartered in paris.

Suez canal mooring and light company.

With a b22d lamp holder. Ship must be equipped with lifting means of 4 mts. Cxh11 type suez canal signal light. Applied to the ships with the length 50m or above 50m as lamp signal liaise.

Each boat is to be manned by three men. The universal company of the maritime canal of suez french. Initially french private investors were the. Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de suez was the concessionary company that constructed the suez canal between 1859 and 1869 and operated it until the 1956 suez crisis it was formed by ferdinand de lesseps in 1858 and it owned and operated the canal for many years thereafter.

By 1875 egypt s shares had been sold to great britain which assisted in the canal s administration. For the signal identification for navigation and for rules of suez canal. All boats are to assist ship to moor in the canal ports in case of need or emergency. It is one of the pioneer global companies specialized in the field of mooring and unmooring of vessels transiting suez canal and or arriving to egyptian ports.

Vessels transiting the canal must have mooring boats hired from the suez canal mooring company manned by shore crew hired from the sc mooring company. All vessels transiting canal must hire mooring boats from the canal mooring and light company. Suitable for cables with an outside diameter of 8mm 10mm. It provides the transiting vessels with floating units and crew required for mooring services and provides the vessels with light projectors accompanied by specialized electricians.

And provide those ships with lighting device that required for their north and south trips. At the time of its founding france had 52 percent of shares and egypt held 44 percent. Pilots are usually injured during embarking or disembarking the vessel using the pilot ladder.