Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Defense Minister Samir Moqbel left here on Thursday heading for Egypt to attend the new Suez Canal's inauguration ceremony at an invitation from Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.

The new 72-kilometer waterway, built in less than a year at a cost of 60 billion EGP, runs part of the way alongside the existing canal connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

The legendary project was mostly financed by investment certificates sold to Egyptians.