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New boarded cargo record on the ships that have crossed the Suez Canal in the first trimester of the year
In the first three months of the 2019 ships directed to south they transported 127,9 million tons of goods (+12.6%) and those directed to north 116,2 million tons (+5.6%)
April 15, 2019
In the first trimester of the 2019 4,458 ships that have crossed the Suez Canal they transported 244,2 million tons of goods, volume that the new record to this period of the year and an increment of +9.1% regarding the first trimester of 2018 represents relatively when the precedence was established record with 223,7 million tons of cargos. The new peak for the period January-March is reached graces is to the new record for this period of the boarded cargo volumes on the ships journeyed in the direction north-south, that it has been pairs to 127,9 million tons (+12.6%), is to the new record of goods on the ships journeyed in the opposite direction, that they are piled to 116,2 million tons (+5.6%), record previously both achieved in the first trimester last year.
Of the ships altogether journeyed in the first three months of this year 1,304 were oil tankers (+22.0%) and 3,154 units of other type (+1.6%). Particularly important it has been increase (+16.1%) of oil cargos and producing oil transported from the ships that have crossed the channel in both the directions, than have been attested 60,1 million to tons, and emphasized it has been also increment (+7.0%) of cargos of other type, that they have totaled 184,0 million tons.
More consisting the volumes than boarded cargos on the ships turn out to be constituted from goods containerized (122,7 million tons, +4.4%), crude oil (23,8 million tons, -1,9%), diesel oils (9,6 million tons, +34.5%), minerals and metals (9,5 million tons, +37.9%), fuels (9,3 million tons, +51.2%), cereals (9,3 million tons, +15.1%), coal and coke (7,9 million tons, +3.3%), gasolines (7,3 million tons, +3.4%), natural gas which liquified (6,2 million tons, -6,3%), produced in metal (6,0 million tons, +6.0%), chemicals (5,8 million to tons, +20.4%) and fertilizers (5,8 million tons, +23.5%).
Of 127,9 million the tons of boarded cargos on the ships tons journeyed from north to south 30,9 million were constituted by oil and producing oil (to +34.5%) and 97,0 million tons from cargos of other type (+7.1%) between which 59,6 million tons of containerized cargos (+3.1%). Dellre 116,2 million tons of cargo on the ships that have crossed the channel directed to north 29,2 million tons were constituted by oil and producing oil (to +1.4%) and 87,0 million tons from other cargos (+7.0%) between which 63,1 million tons of goods in container (+5.7%).
Particularly pronounced it has been the increase of the volumes of cargo on the 1,589 ships that are journeyed in the single freedom of expression of this year, that pairs to 85,5 million tons (+12.7% have turned out on March 2018), total that represents the new absolute record relatively to freedom of expression (the precedence was of March 2017). The single boarded cargos on the ships journeyed from north to south are piled to 47,8 million tons (+20.2%) and those boarded ones on the ships journeyed in the opposite direction to 37,8 million tons (+4.4%).
More consisting the volumes than boarded cargos on the ships that last month are journeyed in both the directions turn out to be constituted from goods in container (41,7 million tons, +5.3%), oil crude oil (8,7 million tons, +4.0%), minerals and metals (4,1 million tons, +75.5%), fuels (3,6 million tons, +66.6%) and cereals (3,5 million tons, +23.4%).
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