Egypt’s SCA: 83 ships crossed Suez Canal in both directions on Thursday

CAIRO – 3 August 2023: A total of 83 ships with a total of 4.8 million tons crossed the Suez Canal in both directions on Thursday, announced head of the Suez Canal Authority Admiral Osama Rabie in a statement.

The number of ships transiting from the north reached 42 ships with a net tonnage of 2.1 million tons, while 41 ships passed through the new waterway of the canal from the south with a total net tonnage of 2.7 million tons.

The average of daily crossing ships reached 72 vessels over this year, he said, noting that the highest daily crossing rates was recorded last March, with 107 ships.

The annual revenues of Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) are at an all-time high, amounting to $9.4 billion during the 2022/2023 fiscal year, announced SCA chief Admiral Osama Rabie in a press conference on June 21, 2023.

Rabie added that a total of 25,887 ships crossed the Suez Canal maritime passage over the year, with 1.5 billion tons.

“The Suez Canal has succeeded during the past 4 years in achieving a quantum leap in its work results, despite the successive global crises that the Suez Canal faced like the Coronavirus pandemic, the global recession, and the crisis of the Russian-Ukrainian war," he said.