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Commercial shipping convoys including a container ship operated by the United Arab Shipping Co. (UASC), center, pass through the Great Bitter Lake during their passage through the Suez Canal in Egypt on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Maersk Line, the world's biggest container shipping company, will stop plying through the Panama Canal to move goods from Asia to the U.S. east coast as bigger ships help the company move it profitably through Suez Canal. Photographer: Kristian Helgesen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Commercial shipping convoys including a container ship operated by the United Arab Shipping Co. (UASC), center, pass through the Great Bitter Lake during their passage through the Suez Canal in Egypt on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Maersk Line, the world's biggest container shipping company, will stop plying through the Panama Canal to move goods from Asia to the U.S. east coast as bigger ships help the company move it profitably through Suez Canal. Photographer: Kristian Helgesen/Bloomberg via Getty Images