The Suez Canal to May 2018 has recorded the new record absolute salary of cargo on the ships in transit



To May 2018 the total volume of the cargo on the ships salary journeyed in the Suez Canal has reached a new historical record being is pairs to beyond 86,3 million tons, advanced total to the precedence record established to April 2018 with than less 80,9 million tons and advanced of +13.3% regarding 76,2 million boarded tons on the ships journeyed in the channel Egyptian in May of 2017.

The new historical peak salary is recorded thanks to the new maximum peak absolute of cargo on the directed ships that have crossed the channel to south that are piled than more 46,6 million tons, with an increment of +16.3% regarding May the 2017 (precedence record were marked to April 2018 with 44,1 million tons). The total of boarded cargos on the ships directed to north has been pairs instead to 39,7 million tons, with an increase of 10.0% on the May the 2017 (record of the cargo on the ships directed in the Mediterranean is established 2008 with in August almost 40,2 million tons).

The new record salary is obtained graces mainly to the new record, in this relative case to the single month of May, of liquid total bulk cargos journeyed in both directions in the channel that have been attested 19,8 million to tons, with a rise of +16.8% on May 2017 when the absolute record was marked the precedence record for the May month (is of December 2017 with 21,4 million tons). The new record of the liquid bulk in its turn is mainly obtained thanks to the new record absolute salary of oil cargos crude oil, that they are piled to beyond 10,4 million tons (+18.7% on the May 2017), peak reached thanks to the new record absolute salary of oil boarded crude oil on the ships journeyed from north to south that has been pairs to 4,5 million tons (+76.8%), while the oil crude oil on the ships pairs to 5,9 million tons (- 5.0% journeyed in the opposite direction have been).

Moreover the new record of May 2018 is achieved, between the other maximum peaks of journeyed volumes of goods, mainly thanks to the new containerized absolute record salary of goods that has been pairs to 42,6 million tons (+6.2%), of which 21,8 million tons of boarded cargos in container on the ships directed to south (+10.8% on May 2017; the absolute record is marked to December 2017 with 22,2 million tons) and almost 20,9 million tons of boarded cargos in container on the ships directed to north (+1.7% on the May 2017 and third best always exceeded result only from the transported containerized volumes to August 2017 - 20,9 million tons – and to January 2018 - 21,2 million tons -).

Last month the ships journeyed totally in the Suez Canal have been 1,605 (+8.2% on the May 2017), of which 383 oil tankers (+10.7%) and 1,222 ships of other type (+7.4%) between which 498 portacontainer (+4.4%).

In the first five months of the 2018 channel it is crossed altogether by 7.262 ships, with an increase of +2.1% on the same period last year, of which 1,816 oil tankers (- 1.2%) and 5,446 ships of other type (+3.3%) between which 2,358 portacontenitori (+6.2%).

In the period January-May of this year the cargos boarded totals on the ships journeyed in the channel are piled to 390,9 million tons (+6.4%), of which 204,4 million tons on the ships directed to south (+5.3%) and 186,5 million tons on those directing to north (+7.7%). Altogether liquid bulk cargos the boarded on the ships journeyed in both the directions have been pairs to 90,6 million tons (+2.5%), between which 44,2 million tons of oil crude oil (+0.8%), 11,5 million tons of gasolines (+20.2%), 11,4 million tons of diesel oils (+44.1%) and 11,3 million tons of others fuels (- 24.1%). The other types of goods are piled to 300,3 million tons (+7.7%), between which 201,3 million tons of containerized cargos (+5.2%).