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In the first ten months of this year the marine traffic in the Suez Canal is diminished of -3,8%
the cargo on the ships journeyed in the water way Egyptian is piled to 676,2 million tons (- 1.9%)
November 21, 2016
To October 2016, for the seventh consecutive month, the marine traffic through the Suez Canal has recorded a decrease being journeyed altogether 1,440 ships, with a decrease of the -4,0% regarding 1.500 ships in October 2015. The transits of oil tankers have been reduced of the -10,0% coming down to 349 units, while those of the ships of other type are diminished of the -1,9% to 1.091 units.
The total volume of the cargo on the ships is diminished also in transit, that it has turned out pairs to 67,9 million tons (- 1.1%), of which 34,4 million boarded tons on the ships journeyed in the direction north-south (+0.7%) and 33,6 million tons on the ships journeyed in the opposite direction (- 2.8%). Totally the cargos constituted from oil and producing oil are
piled to 15,8 million tons (+1.0%), while the other cargo types have been attested 52,1 million to tons (- 1.7%) of which 36,4 million tons of cargos in container (+4.9%).
In the first ten months of the 2016 in the channel Egyptian they are journeyed 14,053 ships, with a contraction of the -3,8% regarding 14.614 in the January-October period last year. The oil tankers have been 3,575 (+0.6%) and the ships of other type 10,478 (- 5.3%).
In the first ten months of this year the boarded cargo volumes on the ships journeyed in the channel have been pairs to 676,2 million tons, with a bending of the -1,9% regarding 689,2 million tons in the correspondent period of 2015. The boarded cargos on the ships directed towards south are piled to 327,4 million tons (- 6.0%) and those boarded ones on the ships directed towards north to 348,8 million tons (+2.3%). Altogether the cargos constituted from oil and producing oil boarded on the ships journeyed in the two directions have been pairs to 151,9 million tons (+0.4%) and those constituted by other types of goods to 524,3 million tons (- 2.5%) of which 368,9 million containerized tons of goods (+2.0%).
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To October 2016, for the seventh consecutive month, the marine traffic through the Suez Canal has recorded a decrease being journeyed altogether 1,440 ships, with a decrease of the -4,0% regarding 1.500 ships in October 2015. The transits of oil tankers have been reduced of the -10,0% coming down to 349 units, while those of the ships of other type are diminished of the -1,9% to 1.091 units.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
