Outstanding revenue for Suez Canal reaches 117 million EGP

Ahmed Ali Fadel -head of Suez Canal Authority- said the canal recorded today a number of figures that is unprecedented since the start of the application of the increase in the fees of crossing the canal by the beginning of this year, the recorded numbers were both in terms of total daily revenue and the number of vessels that passed through the canal and the size of loads on those ships.

Fadel said that the total revenue of the canal on Wednesday reached 19 million and four hundred thousand dollars which is equivalent to 117 million EGP, and the number of ships that crossed the path of the canal today -for both directions north and south- was 61 vessels from different nationalities with a tonnage of 3.5 million tons.