210 Ships Pass Through Suez Canal Last Week
By Aiswarya Lakshmi
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Suez Canal traffic data revealed that 210 ships transited the canal, with a total load of 12.8m tonnes, from 19 to 23 June.
An average of 42 ships transited the canal per day during that period, with an average load of 2.56m tonnes per day. The average load per ship was about 61,000 tonnes.
In comparision over the last week, from 11-16 June, 279 ships passed through the Suez Canal carrying a total of 16.5m tonnes of cargo.
The average number of ships transiting the canal per day is 46.5, with an average of 2.75m total tonnes of cargo.
Compared to July 2015, before the inauguration of the new Suez Canal, the average daily number of transiting vessels totaled 47 vessels, with an average load of 2.758m tonnes per day.
The major container ships of Maren Maersk passed through the canal carrying 200,360 tonnes.