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In June, maritime traffic in the Suez Canal fell by -6.4%
In the second quarter of this year, there were 4,713 ships passing through, or 1.2%
July 6, 2020
The Suez Canal Authority has announced that in the entire first half of 2020 in the waterway are 9,545 ships, a total of 587.6 SCNT million tonnes, with increases of 4.7% respectively 0.6% in the first half of last year.
In the second quarter of this year alone, ships 4,713, an increase of 1.2% over the same period of 2019, for a total of 280.8 million SCNT tonnes (-6.9%).
In addition, the Suez Canal Authority announced that in the year 2019-2020, which ended on June 30, the revenues produced transit rates of ships in the Suez Canal are decreased slightly to USD 5.72 billion compared to USD 5.75 billion in the previous fiscal year. In the 2019-2020 fiscal year, ships passing through the canal were 19,311 (up 4.5%) SCNT 1.21 billion tonnes (up 3.1%).
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