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To April the volume of cargo on the ships pairs to 67,5 million tons (+0.9% journeyed in the Suez Canal have been)
In the first quadrimestre of the 2015 through the water way Egyptian tons of cargos (+3.1% are transported 264,8 million)
May 19, 2015
Last month the marine traffic through the Suez Canal has recorded an increment of +4.2%, while the cargo volumes transported from the ships journeyed in the water way Egyptian have remained almost stable.
To April 2015 the total has been of 1.443 ships regarding 1.385 in April last year and the boarded cargo volumes on the ships journeyed in the channel have been pairs to 67,5 million tons, with an light increment of +0.9% regarding 66,8 million tons in April 2014 that are produced by the increase of +6.4% of cargos journeyed in the direction north-south, that they are piled to 34,3 million tons, increase that it has more than compensated the decrease of the -4,2% of cargos journeyed in the direction south-north, attesting to 33,2 million tons.
Altogether to April 2015 the cargos constituted from oil and producing oil are piled to 14,1 million tons (- 2.5%) and the cargos of other type to 53,4 million tons (+1.9%) of which 35,9 million tons of containerized cargos (- 0.8%).
In the first quadrimestre of the 2015 channel it is crossed by 5.510 ships, with a progression of +2.1% regarding 5.396 in the January-April period last year. The oil tankers have been 1,325 (+0.2%) and the ships of other type 4,185 (+2.7%).
In the first four months of this year the ships journeyed transported a total of 264,8 million tons (+3.1%), of which 133,6 million boarded tons on the ships from north to south (+3.2%) and in transit 131,2 million tons on the ships in transit from south to north (+2.9%).
Altogether in the first quadrimestre of 2015 oil cargos of oil and producing journeyed in both the directions pairs to 55,8 million tons (- 1.9%), of which 28,1 million tons in the direction north-south (+8.3%) and 27,7 million tons in the direction south-north (- 10.5% have been). The other cargo types are piled to a total of 209,0 million tons (+4.5%), of which 105,5 million tons journeyed in the direction north-south (+1.9%) and 103,5 million tons in the report south-north (+7.2%). The single containerized cargos have been pairs to 140,9 million tons (+1.4%), of which 67,7 million tons of goods in container tons journeyed from south to north (+2.7% journeyed by north to south (0%) and 73,2 million).
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Last month the marine traffic through the Suez Canal has recorded an increment of +4.2%, while the cargo volumes transported from the ships journeyed in the water way Egyptian have remained almost stable.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
