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Last month the marine traffic in the Suez Canal is increased of +3.7%
the journeyed ships transported 71,8 million tons of goods (+7.1%)
November 26, 2014
Last month in the Suez Canal they are journeyed 1,558 ships, with an increment of +3.7% respect to October 2013. The oil tankers have been 356 units (+6.3%) and the ships of other type 1,202 (+2.9%). The ships journeyed in the water way Egyptian altogether transported 71,8 million tons of goods (+7.1%), of which 37,7 million tons of boarded cargos on the ships journeyed in the direction north-south (+10.7%) and 34,0 million tons of boarded cargos on the ships journeyed in the direction south-north (+3.4%).
In the first ten months of the 2014 channel it is crossed altogether by 14.204 ships, with an increase of +3.4% regarding 13.739 in the January-October period last year. The oil tankers have been 3,350 (+12.2%) and the ships of other type 10,854 (+1.0%). The ships in transit transported a total of 684,1 million tons of goods (+9.6%), of which 345,5 million tons on the ships journeyed from north towards south (+9.1%) and 338,6 million tons on the ships journeyed in opposite direction (+10.0%).
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