In the first half of this year on the important route maritime Straits of Malacca and Singapore have transited 43 thousand ships, with an increment of +8.0% on the first semester of the 2022 which was generated by the growth of +5.5% in the first three months of 2023 compared to the corresponding period of the last year and from a rise of +10.5% marked in the following quarter.

In the period April-June of this year, in fact, over 222 thousand ships have traveled this route compared to 20 thousand in the same period of 2022. The largest share of ships transited was that of container ships with a total of 6,100 units (+15.7%), followed by tankers with 5,000 units (+3.8%), bulk carriers with 4,600 ships (+18.2%), ships VLCC tank with 2,400 units (+10.7%), from cargo ships Generali with 1,700 units (+6.1%), from ships for natural gas liquefied with 1,200 units (-3.0%) and ro-ro vessels with 600 units (-5.2%).