Q182
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What is not true about New Suez Canal Project?
- a.It would turn the zone into a global trade centre.
- b.The Project started in August 14 and completed in August 15.
- c.It comprises 72 km of new channel and bypasses.
- d.It is the shortest sea link between Asia and Africa.
Answer: (D) It is the shortest sea link between Asia and Africa.
Answer as of 2016 — this may have changed since.
The New Suez Canal expansion project (launched August 2014, completed August 2015) added a parallel channel of 72 km to the existing canal. It aims to make the Suez Canal zone a global trade hub. The Suez Canal is the shortest sea link between Europe and Asia — not between Asia and Africa as stated in option D, making D false.