An official source at the Suez Canal Authority said on Monday that total revenues of the canal in July of this year amounted to US$482.2 million against US$429.2 million in July of last year, an increase of US$53 million.
The source added that 53 vessels with a total tonnage of 2.6 million passed on Monday, including 28 ships coming with the north convoy and carrying 1.3 million tons, and 25 ships with the south convoy also carrying 1.3 million tons.
The largest vessel coming from the north was a Danish container ship carrying 172,000 tons from the United Kingdom bound for Singapore, and from the south a British container ship carrying 180,000 tons from Malaysia heading to Morocco.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
