Chinese Naval Fleet Crosses Suez Canal

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Chinese Naval Fleet Crosses Suez Canal

A Chinese naval fleet, composed of a missile guided destroyer "Qingdao" and a supply ship "Taicang", on Wednesday crossed the Suez Canal during its round-the-world voyage, the first in the Chinese Navy's history.

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PLA Fleet Starts First Round-the-World Voyage

A Chinese naval fleet on Wednesday crossed the Suez Canal during its round-the-world voyage,the first in the Chinese Navy's history.

The fleet, composed of a missile guided destroyer, the Qingdao, and a supply ship, the Taicang, is expected to take up a berth at the northern Egyptian port city of Alexandria on Friday to start a five-day visit to Egypt.

The two vessels, led by Ding Yiping, commander of the North China Sea Fleet, weighed anchors at a naval port in China's eastern port city of Qingdao on May 15.

The warships with more than 500 crew members on board were designed and built in China.

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