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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi opened the expanded Suez Canal on 6 August 2015 at a ceremony in Ismailia, after a year of digging that added 72 kilometres of new waterways. Analysts questioned whether the projected revenue gains were realistic.

Microsoft began shipping HoloLens 2 on 7 November 2019 in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, to select enterprise customers first.

The 400-metre container ship Ever Given ran aground across the Suez Canal on 23 March 2021 in high winds and was refloated on 29 March. Hundreds of ships queued while the world's busiest east-west route was shut.

On 30 October 2023 the Panama Canal Authority announced a staged cut in daily transits after the driest October on record, the first time the canal had ever restricted transits. It was later softened but queues of ships built up for weeks.

On 15 December 2023 Maersk told ships bound for the Bab al-Mandab to pause after Houthi attacks, and within days it and other lines sent ships around Africa. The diversions cut traffic through the Suez Canal.

On 11 November 2025 Yemen's Houthis signalled in a letter that they had stopped attacking Israel and Red Sea shipping while the Gaza ceasefire holds. Suez Canal traffic stayed far below pre-crisis levels into early 2026.

DHS extended the Jones Act waiver for foreign-flag ships moving fuel, fertilizer and other energy cargo for 90 days from 17 August 2026, narrowing the list to 237 product codes and requiring pre-voyage approval.

Late on 31 August 2026 the very large crude carriers Sidr and Senegal Prosperity, each carrying about two million barrels of Saudi crude, were hit by unidentified projectiles minutes apart as they left the Strait of Hormuz; no one claimed the attacks and crews were safe.