Suez Canal records highest ship traffic in a single day

The waterway recorded 74 ship crossings on Saturday, marking the highest number of ship traffic in a single day, according to local media source Daily News Egypt.    The Suez Canal recorded the highest number of single-day ship traffic in its history on Saturday, with 74 large vessels transporting 5.2 million metric tons utilizing the waterway, according to local media source Daily News Egypt.
   The number of transiting vessels from the north reached 50 vessels, with loads of 3.1 million metric tons, while 24 vessels came from the south with loads of 2.1 million metric tons.
   Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, noted that the Suez Canal recorded a combined ship total of 112 ships on Wednesday and Thursday, with a total load of 6.6 million metric tons, including 50 vessels from the north carrying 2.9 million metric tons and 62 vessels from the south transporting 3.7 million metric tons.
   “Mamish said that Egypt is looking forward to taking advantage of the large volume of goods crossing the canal annually by implementing the canal area’s development project,” Daily News Egypt reported. “He added that the Suez Canal area development project is the ambitious national project to change the marine and logistics services map in the region. It aims at creating an attractive environment for investment by establishing industrial zones and investment projects.”
   Looking at how the Suez Canal stacks up, in terms of fully cellular container services, the waterway is utilized by 58 loops, with average vessel size totaling 10,378 TEUs, whereas the Panama Canal is utilized by 31 fully cellular container services with average vessel size standing at just 5,960 TEUs, according to ocean carrier schedule and capacity database BlueWater Reporting’s Capacity Report.