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Still down the marine traffic in the Suez Canal
To October they are journeyed 1,473 ships (- 4.4%) transporting altogether 62,2 million tons of goods (+3.8%)
November 6, 2012
The marine traffic in the Suez Canal has succeeded in to in October record the seventh consecutive month of bending having totaled the 2012 transit of 1.473 ships, with a decrease of 4.4% regarding 1.541 ships in October 2011. The journeyed oil tankers last month have been 304 units (- 0.3%) and the ships of other type 1,169 units (- 5.4%).
The journeyed ships last month transported volumes of cargo pairs to 62,2 million tons, with a progression of 3.8% regarding 60,0 million tons in October last year. The ships in transit in the direction north-south transported 32,6 million tons (+9.1%) and those in the direction south-north 29,6 million tons, with a contraction of 1.5% that represents the seventh decrement in the report consecutive salary of the journeyed volumes northbound.
In the first ten months of the 2012 channel Egyptian it is crossed altogether by 14.469 ships, with a decrease of 1.7% regarding the January-October period last year. The oil tankers have been 3,010 units (+3.4%) and the ships of other type 11,459 units (- 3.0%). In the first ten months of this year the transported cargo volumes through the channel are piled to 619,9 million tons (+8.3%), of which 324,4 million tons in the direction north-south (+19.0%) and 295,6 million tons in the direction south-north (- 1.5%).
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