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Last month in the Suez Canal they are journeyed 1,465 ships (- 3.2%)
In the first nine months of the 2011 traffic it has been of 13.186 ships (- 1.4%)
October 10, 2011
Last month in the Suez Canal they are journeyed 1,465 ships, with a decrease of 3.2% regarding september 2010. The oil tankers have been 296 (- 4.8%) and the ships of other type 1,169 (- 2.7%). The ships journeyed last month in the water way Egyptian transported altogether 58,0 million tons of cargos (+10.5% on the september 2010), of which 27,2 million tons in the direction north-south (+8.4%) and 30,9 million tons in that south-north (+12.3%).
In the first nine months of the 2011 Suez Canal it is crossed by 13.186 ships, with a decrease of the 1.4% regarding 13.377 ships in the period January-september last year. The oil tankers are piled to 2.607 units (- 1.3%) and the ships of other type 10,579 units (- 1.4%). Altogether the ships in transit transported 512,5 million tons of cargos (+6.9%), of which 242,7 million tons in direction southbound (+2.2%) and 269,8 million tons in direction northbound (+11.5%).
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