Last May, a record was set again history of ship traffic through the Suez Canal being transited 2.396 ships, with an increment of +25.0% on May 2022 to which the sustained growth of +44.6% of transits contributed of tankers, which reached a new all-time peak of 771 unity, and also the significant increase of +17.5% in transits of other types of ships, results equal to 1,625 units, number lower only to the historical record of 1,632 units set at August 2008.

In May 2023 the new record was also achieved history of net tonnage of ships transited which is result pairs to 142,9 million tons SCNT (+24.6%) and The new historical record of the value of transit rights generated from maritime traffic, which amounted to 29.2 billion Egyptian pounds ($944 million).

In the first five months of this year, ships transited through the Egyptian Canal totalled 10,999, with an increase +20.2% on the correspondent period of 2022, of which 3.590 ships tank (+57.7%) and 7,409 other ships (+7.8%).