341 Ships Traverse Suez Canal Last Week
By Aiswarya Lakshmi
March 14, 2016
The Suez Canal traffic data reported that 341 ships traverse the Suez Canal with a total cargo load of 18.88m tonnes from from 4 to 10 March 2016, as per a report in the Daily News Egypt.
An average of 48.7 ships transited the canal per day during the past week, with an average load of 2.7m tonnes per day. The average load per ship was about 55,360 tonnes during that period.
Prior to the inauguration of the New Suez Canal in July 2015, there was a daily average of 47 vessels transiting the canal, with an average load of 2.758m tonnes per day.
Last week, three Danish container ships – Marstal Maersk, Mette Maersk and Matz Maersk – transited the canal with 200,360 tonnes each.
A total of 176 ships transited the canal towards the south, with a daily average of 25.14 ships and a total load of 9.53m tonnes of cargo, marking a daily average of 1.36m tonnes.
The number of vessels that passed through the new channel coming from the east through the southern entrance was 165 vessels, with a daily average of 23.57 vessels, and a total load of 9.43m tonnes, recording a daily average of 1.35m tonnes.
In 2015, revenue generated from the Suez Canal declined to $5.175bn, compared to revenue of $5.465bn the year before, a decline of $290m, due to an increase in the value of the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) against the US dollar and a general slowdown in the global economy.
