New record for the month of september of cargos on board of the ships journeyed in the Suez Canal



Last month in the Suez Canal they are journeyed altogether 1,522 ships for a gross capacity total of 99,0 million tons SCNT (Suez Canal Net Ton), with increments respective of +1.4% and +5.3% on september 2018. The oil tankers have been 412 (+4.6%) for 18,6 million tons SCNT (+1.0%) and the ships of other type 1,110 (+0.3%) for 80,4 million tons SCNT (+6.4%).

The ships that last month have crossed the channel Egyptian totally transported 83,4 million tons of goods, volume that the new record constitutes of cargos on board of the journeyed naval units in September and represents an increment of +0.8% on september 2018 when the precedence was marked record. The new peak for september is recorded thanks to the new record for this month of the cargo on the ships journeyed in the direction north-south that are piled to 46,4 million tons, with an increase of +6.7% on september 2018 when the precedence was achieved record. The volume of the cargo on the ships pairs to 37,0 million tons journeyed in the direction south-north have been, with a bending (the third consecutive salary) of the -5,8% on september 2018 when the precedence was established record.

Last month more consisting the boarded type than loaded on the directed ships that have crossed the channel to south was constituted by goods containerized with 19,8 million tons (+8.7%) continuation by the cereals with 7,2 million tons (+37.5%), by the crude oil with 4,6 million tons (- 17.3%) and by minerals and metals with 4,4 million tons (+37.1%). Also more consisting the type than boarded cargos on the ships journeyed in the direction south-north was constituted by the goods containerized with 20,5 million tons (- 2.0%) continuation from the crude oil with 3,7 million tons (- 45.6%), by diesel oils with 2,3 million tons (+7.2%) and by the which liquified natural gas with 2,3 million tons (+169.4%).

To evidence the prosecuzione of the trend of emphasized decrease of the volume of cargo on the ships journeyed in the Suez Canal and directed to the ports of the northern Mediterranean, than last month has been pairs to 6,3 million tons, with a decrease of the -17,2% on the september 2018 that represents the thirteenth data percentage consecutive salary of sign negative. Last month, instead, the goods on board of the ships journeyed in the channel that were coming from the ports of the northern Mediterranean have turned out in increase of +12.9% being piled to 4,8 million tons, increase that but are framed in existence in a general tendency to the decrescita one from half 2017 and that – as is happening for the flow of the goods journeyed from south to north - it is newly emphasizing the difference between the volumes of traffic of the goods enlivened from the ports of the northern Mediterranean and those enlivened from the nordeuropei ports, as evidenced from the attached diagrams.

In the first nine months of the 2019 channel Egyptian it is crossed by a total of 13.854 ships for a commercial ability to 892,6 million tons SCNT, with increases respective of +3.0% and +5.8% on the correspondent period last year. The oil tankers have been 3,745 (+8.4%) for 169,4 million tons SCNT (+11.7%) and the ships of other type 10,109 (+1.1%) for 723,2 million tons SCNT (+4.5%).

In the first nine months of this year the ships journeyed totally transported 766,4 million tons of goods (+5.5%), of which 412,8 million tons on board of the ships journeyed in the direction north-south (+8.6%) and 353,6 million tons on the ships journeyed in the direction south-north (+2.0%).

The main cargo volumes on board of the directed ships that have crossed the channel to south were constituted by goods containerized with 190,9 million tons (+4.9%), from crude oil with 39,1 million tons (+21.7%), from cereals with 36,4 million tons (- 3.1%), from minerals and metals with 32,1 million tons (+44.5%) and from fuels with 20,5 million tons (- 1.5%). More consisting the volumes than cargos on the ships directed to north were constituted by goods containerized with 192,0 million tons (+3.8%), crude oil with 39,0 million tons (- 26.9%), diesel oils with 24,3 million tons (+21.5%), natural gas which liquified with 18,4 million tons (+49.5%), gasolines with 17,8 million tons (+1.9%) and chemicals with 11,7 million tons (+5.7%).