In the first three months of this year the ships journeyed in the Suez Canal transported 215,5 million tons of goods (+8.3%)



In the first trimester of this year the Suez Canal is crossed by 4.179 ships, a single one in more regarding the correspondent period of 2016. The number of oil tankers (1,127) light has grown of +0.2%, while that of the other types of ships (3,052) is diminished of an unit.

If the marine traffic through the water way Egyptian does not have variations quickly, the volume of the cargo on pairs to 215,5 million tons regarding 198,9 million tons in the first three months the journeyed ships have instead recorded an increment of +8.3% being are last year. The cargos constituted from oil and producing oil have turned out pairs to 54,2 million tons (+18.2%), while those constituted by other types of goods are piled to 161,3 million tons (+5.4%) of which 111,9 million tons of goods in container (+6.0%).

In the first three the 2017 months of the sun ships journeyed in the direction north-south transported 113,4 million tons of cargos (+17.6%), of which 27,7 million oil tons of oil and producing (to +36.9%) and 85,6 million tons of other goods (+12.4%) between which 56,1 million containerized tons of goods (+15.1%). More consisting the boarded volumes than loaded on the ships journeyed towards south were constituted by cereals (10,4 million tons, +10.9%), fuels (10,3 million tons, +102.9%), crude oil (7,7 million tons, +46.3%), minerals and metals (6,2 million tons, -10,6%), gasolines (2,8 million tons, +4.4%), naphta (2,4 million tons, -18,7%) and produced in metal (2,0 million tons, -9,5%).

The ships journeyed in the direction south-north altogether transported 102,1 million tons of goods (- 0.3%), of which 26,5 million oil tons of oil and producing (to +3.5%) and 75,6 million tons of other goods (- 1.6%) between which 55,8 million tons of goods in container (- 1.9%). More consisting the volumes than cargo on the ships directed towards north have turned out constituted from crude oil (17,9 million tons, +14.2%), diesel oils (4,1 million tons, -13,9%), natural gas which liquified (3,9 million tons, -23,0%), produced in metal (3,9 million tons, -10,8%), gasolines (3,3 million tons, -16,5%), chemicals (3,1 million tons, +10.9%) and oils vegetables (- 2.9%).

In the single freedom of expression of the 2017 Suez Canal it is crossed by 1.524 ships, with an increment of +4.8% on March 2016. The oil tankers have been 425 (+14.2%) and the ships of other type 1,524 (+1.6%).

The ships journeyed last month in the channel transported a total of 77,8 million tons of goods (+15.0%), of which 41,1 million tons of boarded cargos on the ships directed to south (+15.3%) and 36,7 million tons of boarded cargos on the ships journeyed in opposite direction (+14.7%).