After 27 consecutive months of much more growth sustained for most of the period with trend increases In double digits, last July maritime traffic in the Suez Canal recorded a much smaller rise. However, the 2,158 ships transited, if they represent a moderate increase of +2.6% on July 2022, however, constitute the new traffic records for the month of July. In addition, the Last July the total tonnage of ships measured on the basis of the Suez Canal Net Tonnage amounted to 134,6 million tons SCNT, gross volume representing both an increase in +7.6% on July 2022, both the new record for the month of July and the second highest volume ever being only lower than the 142.9 million tons of SCNT of the last May.

The weakening of the growth trend of maritime traffic recorded last July was determined the attenuation of the increase in the transit of tanker ships that July 2023 were 727 (+18.2%) as well as the decrease in transits of other vessels which, with 1,431 vessels, have marked a decrease of -3.8% on July 2022.

Last July, the value of transit charges produced by the Maritime traffic in the canal amounted to 27.9 billion Egyptian pounds ($902 million), which is more double the 13.3 billion Egyptian pounds totaled in July 2022.

In the first seven months of this year the channel was crossed by a total of 15,319 ships, with an increase of +16.0% on the corresponding period of 2022, of which 5,027 tankers (+44.4%) and 10,292 other ships (+5.9%).