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In the second quarter of this year, the Suez Canal recorded record ship traffic
5,798 ships transited (+11.9%)
July 4, 2022
In the period April-June of this year the only tankers transited through the canal amounted to the record number of 1,650 ships (+34.1%), a record that had previously been recorded in the second quarter of 2020 with 1,464 tankers, while the ships of other type are amounted to 4,148 units (+5.0%), number that is significantly lower than the historical record of 4,725 ships of other type achieved in the third quarter of 2008.
In terms of tonnage, in the second quarter of 2022 the SCNT tons of ships transiting the canal amounted to record volume of 341.9 million Suez Canal Net Ton (+7.4%). The oil tankers alone totaled a record volume of 74.8 million of SCNT tons (+44.4%), while that of the other ships is state pairs to 267,1 million tons SCNT (+0.2%), volume that is the third highest ever.
A further record was recorded by revenues generated by the transit rights of vessels in the canal, which in the April-June period of this year amounted to about 1.97 billion dollars (+24.2%).
The Suez Canal Authority has announced that in the entire year financial year 2021/2022, annual period which ended on last June 30, a total of 22,032 transited through the canal ships, record number that represents an increase of +15.7% on the previous financial year, for a capacity total pairs to 1,32 billion tons SCNT (+10.9%). Record also for the revenues produced by the transits that amounted to seven billion dollars (+20.7%).
In the financial year 2021/2022 the only container ships 5,520 passed through the canal for a 638 thousand tons SCNT, traffic that generated revenues of 3.4 billion Dollars. The bulk carriers alone were 6,327 ships for 254 thousand SCNT tons and revenues of $1.3 billion. The tankers were 5,451 for 236 thousand tons SCNT, traffic which generated revenue of $1.2 billion, while ships for liquefied natural gas were 886 for 97 thousand SCNT tons and revenues of $435 million. They are also 1,959 multipurpose ships, 966 car carriers and 60 ships transited passengers.
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In the period April-June of this year the only tankers transited through the canal amounted to the record number of 1,650 ships (+34.1%), a record that had previously been recorded in the second quarter of 2020 with 1,464 tankers, while the ships of other type are amounted to 4,148 units (+5.0%), number that is significantly lower than the historical record of 4,725 ships of other type achieved in the third quarter of 2008.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
