to provide you with a better response than the typical engineer (“it depends”): i’ve been involved in megaprojects and studies similar to this my entire career. in short, its complex, if it were even possible the canal expansion would cost 10's of billions, furthermore it would spur secondary/tertiary megaprojects…

This is the only part of the Suez canal that wasn’t upgraded in 2014-15 (a project that cost $12.5bn), this whole incident is the epitome Murphy’s law.