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August 2022 record for the Suez Canal
Never so high the number of ships transited and their net tonnage. New historical peak of revenues generated by transit rights
September 9, 2022
In August 2022 the new record was also set history of net tonnage of ships transited in the canal Egyptian which amounted to 127.8 million Suez Canal Net Tonnage, equal to a growth of +16.0% on the August of last year. A new historical peak has also been reported from the revenues generated by the transit rights of ships in the canal which in August 2022 amounted to 744.8 million dollars, with a increase of +32.4% on July 2021.
In the first eight months of this year in the Egyptian channel are 15,329 ships transited overall, with an increase of +15.1% on the corresponding period of 2021. The net tonnage of transited ships stood at 909.4 million tons SCNT (+10.1%) and this ship traffic generated revenues from transits pairs to a total of 5.1 billion dollars (+24.4%).
Since it was nationalized in July 1956, to today, 1.05 million ships have passed through the Egyptian canal for a total net tonnage of SCC 30.1 billion. This traffic generated revenues for Egypt amounting to $134.3 billion.
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