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To October the marine traffic in the Suez Canal is returned to grow
They are journeyed 1,503 ships (+2.0%)
December 5, 2013
After a series of 17 consecutive months of the reduction of the marine traffic in the Suez Canal, only inframmezzati by +0.4% recorded in May 2013, last October the traffic is returned to grow being is of 1.503 ships, with a progression of +2.0% regarding 1.473 ships journeyed in the channel Egyptian in October 2012. The increase is determined by the increase of +10.2% of the number of oil tankers, that they are piled to 335 units regarding 304 in October 2012, while the transits of ships of other type are diminished of the -0,1% coming down to 1.168 units. Total net tonnage of the ships journeyed in the water way has been of 81,8 million tons (+4.4%), of which 13,0 million relative to oil tankers (+15.1%) and 68,8 million to the ships of other type (+2.6%).
In the first ten months of the 2013 marine traffic in the Suez Canal it has totaled a bending of the -5,1% being it are pairs to 13.739 ships regarding 14.469 in the January-October period last year. The oil tankers have been 2,988 units (- 0.7%) and the ships of other type 10,751 units (- 6.2%).
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After a series of 17 consecutive months of the reduction of the marine traffic in the Suez Canal, only inframmezzati by +0.4% recorded in May 2013, last October the traffic is returned to grow being is of 1.503 ships, with a progression of +2.0% regarding 1.473 ships journeyed in the channel Egyptian in October 2012. The increase is determined by the increase of +10.2% of the number of oil tankers, that they are piled to 335 units regarding 304 in October 2012, while the transits of ships of other type are diminished of the -0,1% coming down to 1.168 units. Total net tonnage of the ships journeyed in the water way has been of 81,8 million tons (+4.4%), of which 13,0 million relative to oil tankers (+15.1%) and 68,8 million to the ships of other type (+2.6%).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
