Data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt revealed that the value of the Suez Canal revenues exceeded half a trillion pounds over 10 years to reach 575.2 billion pounds.
Statistics indicated that revenues recorded 91.7 billion pounds during the fiscal year 2019-2020, a decrease of 9% from the previous year.
The net tonnage of vessels transiting the Suez Canal reached 10.1 billion tons over 10 years, recording 1.2 billion tons during the past fiscal year, an increase of 3.1% over the previous year.
The number of vessels transiting the Suez Canal recorded 176.6 thousand vessels during 10 years, and statistics showed an increase in the number of ships during the fiscal year 2019-2020 to 19.3 thousand vessels, a rate of 4.5% over the previous year.
The average value of the Suez Canal revenues per day was 254.7 million pounds during the fiscal year 2019/2020, and the net tonnage of the vessels transiting the canal was 3.4 million tons, and the number of vessels transiting them reached 54 vessels during one day.
Source: “El yom Elsabea”
