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Last month the marine traffic in the Suez Canal has recorded a decrease of 7.7%
The total volume of cargos transported from the ships has grown of 3.1%
June 8, 2011
Last month the marine traffic in the Suez Canal has accused a bending of 7.7%. They are in fact journeyed altogether 1,442 ships regarding 1.562 in May 2010. The oil tankers have been 264 (- 10.5%) and the ships of other type 1,178 (- 7.0%). Vice versa in transit, that it is piled to 57,3 million tons (7,1 million producing tons of oil, -20,3%; 50,2 million tons of other goods, +7.6%), of which 27,1 million tons in the direction north-south (- 4.1%) and 30,2 million tons in the direction south-north (+10.6%).
In the first five months of the 2011 channel Egyptian it is crossed by 7.211 ships, with an increment of 0.6% regarding 7.169 ships in the period January-May last year. The oil tankers have been 1,407 (+0.6%) and the ships of other type 5,804 (+0.6%). The cargos transported altogether from the ships in transit have been attested 275,3 million to tons (+6.4%), of which 132,4 million tons in direction southbound (+0.3%) and 143,0 million tons in direction northbound (+12.7%).
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Last month the marine traffic in the Suez Canal has accused a bending of 7.7%. They are in fact journeyed altogether 1,442 ships regarding 1.562 in May 2010. The oil tankers have been 264 (- 10.5%) and the ships of other type 1,178 (- 7.0%). Vice versa in transit, that it is piled to 57,3 million tons (7,1 million producing tons of oil, -20,3%; 50,2 million tons of other goods, +7.6%), of which 27,1 million tons in the direction north-south (- 4.1%) and 30,2 million tons in the direction south-north (+10.6%).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
