Last September, the sharp contraction in the ship traffic in the Suez Canal has been in place since the beginning of the year and due to the effect of attacks on ships conducted by the rebels Yemeni Houthis in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region. As has been uninterruptedly since last March, also in September 2024 the transits were half of those of last year the crossings of 1,042 ships having been recorded, with a down -52.4% on September 2024, of which 428 tankers (-38.2%) and 614 ships of other types (-59.0%). Tonnage of ships transited the canal last September result of 41.1 million tonnes SCNT (-68.9%) and the maritime traffic in the Egyptian waterway has led to the collection of 15.5 billion Egyptian pounds (314 million EGP) dollars) of transit rights (-41.3%).

In the third quarter of 2024, the Suez Canal was crossed by a total of 3,196 ships, with a decrease in -51.0% compared to the July-September period last year, of which 1,261 tankers (-39.5%) and 1,935 other types of ships (-56.4%). The net tonnage of ships transited was equal to a total of 127.2 million tonnes SCNT (-68.4%) and the paid by the ships that have crossed the canal are amounted to 47.3 billion EGP pounds (-42.1%).

In the first nine months of this year, ship traffic in the canal was 10,071 ships, down -48.8% on the same period of 2023, of which 3,782 tankers (-40.8%) and 6,289 ships of other types (-52.7%), for a total SCNT tonnage of 407.1 million tons (-65.4%). Transit charges levied amounted to 133.0 billion EGP pounds in the period (-43,9%).

Meanwhile, this morning the Suez Canal Authority celebrated the success of the transit in the canal in the past few hours of the Dourado floating dock, built by the Brazilian Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA) of the Singaporean group Seatrium, which comes from Singapore and is bound for Turkey. The crossing, which took place at a speed of less than four knots, lasted about 24 hours and the Dourado, with its width of 90 meters, was the floating dock ever passed through the Suez Canal. The operation is was conducted with the use of the two tugs Hulk II and Maverick I of the Star Matrix in Hong Kong that have led the basin, 450 meters long and weighing about 91 thousand tons, assisted by five other tugs of the Maritime Authority, Suez Canal.

Admiral Osama Rabie, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, highlighted that the transit from south to north of the floating basin Dourado was made possible thanks to the completion of the of the works to expand the canal that allowed its widening by 40 meters to the east.