Last April, the negative trend of the volume of ship traffic transited through the Suez Canal which is in place since December 2023 due to the impact on maritime services attacks by Houthi rebels on ships in the region Red Sea Islands, which have led most of the Red Sea navigation to divert their traffic to the route around the Cape of Good Hope. In April 2025, traffic in the canal was 1,038 ships, down -7.7% compared to April last year, of which 414 tankers (+0.1%) and 624 naval units of other types (-12.6%). Tonnage net SCNT of the ships that crossed the amounted to 40.8 million tons (-6.9%). The monthly value of transit fees paid by ships amounted to 16.8 billion EGP pounds (339 million EGP) dollars) (+6.3%).

In the first four months of 2025, total traffic in the Suez Canal was 4,019 ships, with a decrease in -14.9% on the January-April period of last year, of which 1,534 tankers (-6.9%) and 2,485 other types of ships (-19.1%). The net tonnage of ships transited was equal to 156.4 million tons (-19.4%). In the first four months of This year, the value of transit fees paid by ships is was 62.3 billion EGP (+13.5%).