Last year in the Suez Canal it is journeyed a traffic record of goods



In 2017 in the Suez Canal they are journeyed altogether 17,550 ships, with an increment of +4.3% regarding 16.833 ships in the year precedence. If the number of naval units that last year have crossed the water way does not constitute a record anniversary for the channel, that it is established in 1982 with 22.545 ships, it is instead the total volume of net tonnage (short tons) of the ships that in the 2017 are passed in the channel that the threshold of the billion of tons has exceeded for the first time totaling 1,04 billion clean tons, with an increase of +6.9% on 2016 and with a rise of +4.3% record compared to the previous almost 999 million clean tons recorded in 2015.

Relatively to the type of ships journeyed in the channel, last year the number of oil tankers that have crossed it has been of 4.537 units, with an increase of +5.7% on 2016, for a total of 188,1 million short tons (+8.1%), while the ships of other type have been 13,013 (+3.8%) for total 853,4 million short tons (+6.7%).

In 2017 anniversary of cargo on the ships is achieved also the new historical record that have crossed the Suez Canal. They are piled in fact to 908,6 million tons, with an increment of +10.9% regarding 819,1 million tons in the 2016 and with an increase of +10.4% record of compared to the previous 822,9 million tons established in 2015. The record is such is for the cargo on the ships that are journeyed in the direction north-south that have been attested 477,9 million to tons, with a progression of +19.3% on the 2016 and with an increase of +14.6% record of on the previous 417,2 million tons established in 2015, are for the cargo on the naval units that have crossed it in the direction south-north, that pairs to 430,6 million tons have been, in increase of +2.9% on the 2016 and with an increment of +1.5% record of on the previous 424,1 million tons recorded in by now far away 2007 before the beginning of world-wide the economic crisis.

Between the main boarded cargo types on the ships that in the 2017 have crossed the channel, the goods containerized has reached the new peak historical anniversary of 471,4 million tons, with an increment of +7.1% on the previous record established in 2016. For the container the record is such is for the boarded containers on the ships journeyed from north to south that have totaled 237,4 million tons, with an increase of +12.9% on a 2016 and rise of +11.6% record of on the previous 212,7 million tons of 2014, is for transported containerized cargos from the ships journeyed from south to north that have been attested 234,0 million to tons, with a progression of +1.9% record of on the previous 229,7 million tons established in 2016.

New absolute record is also that of transported cargos of crude oil from the ships journeyed last year in the channel that are piled to 106,2 million tons, with an increase of +16.1% on the previous record obtained in 2016. Also in this case the new record is such is for the transported crude oil from the ships journeyed from north to south that is piled to 33,5 million tons, with a progression of +67.9% on the 2016 and with an increase of +40.6% record of on the previous 23,8 million tons of 2012, is for the transported crude oil from the ships journeyed from south to north that it has been pairs to 72,7 million tons, with an increase of +1.6% on the previous record established in 2016.

A new historical peak, between the recorded others in the various merceologici fields, is established by the cereals, that it is the third more consisting type than cargo on the ships that have crossed the channel. In 2017 cargos of cereals pairs to 48,0 million tons have been, with an increase of +2.5% on the previous record of 2016. The new record is such for the single boarded cereals on the ships journeyed from north to south that are piled to 47,4 million tons, in increase of +1.6% on the previous record of 2016, while the total of 519 thousand tons of boarded cereals on the ships journeyed in the opposite direction is advanced of 403.9% regarding 2016, but inferior regarding that of 556 thousand tons recorded in 2007.