In July 2015, before the inauguration of the New Suez Canal, the average daily number of transiting vessels was 47 ships, with an average load of 2.758 m tonnes per day.
During the past week (from 27 November to 3 December), 348 ships transited with a mean load of 56,533 tonnes (56,567 tons the previous week) with a total load of 19.680 m tonnes.
Two weeks ago 320 vessels transited the canal, carrying a total load of 18,101 m tonnes.
About 50 ships (46 ships last week) transited the canal daily, with an average load of 2.8 m tonnes (2.6 m last week) per day.
The number of ships that passed through the new channel coming from the east through the southern entrance was about 193 ships, a daily average of 28 vessels, with total loads of 11.59 m tonnes, a daily average of 1.655 m tonnes.
The following table shows traffic through the Suez Canal between 27 November and 3 December:
Source: Daily News Egypt
