DUBAI—A project to expand parts of the Suez Canal is expected to be completed after two years of work in July 2023, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said on Sunday. The SCA announced accelerated plans to extend a second channel of the canal and to enlarge an existing channel after the Ever Given container ship ran aground and blocked the waterway for six days last year. “The project will be completed in 24 months. We started in July 2021 and God willing we will finish in July 2023,” Chairman Osama Rabie said on the sidelines of an event in Dubai. Ships pass through the canal in convoys, and the extension of the second lane would increase capacity by six ships, Rabie said, without giving further details. The southernmost 30 km of the canal, where the Ever Given became grounded, is set to be widened 40 meters eastward …