Vice admiral/ Mohab Mameeh, head of Suez Canal authority and of Economic General authority of the Canal Region said that navigational traffic at the Canal has witnessed during past 9 days crossing of 445 vessels with tonnages 30.8 million ton.
Mameesh at Press statements has assured that such ranking score that the Canal navigational traffic has recorded is considered an important indicator that reflects improvement in international trade traffic and development in maritime transport industry and international shipyards trend to manufacture giant vessels of big drafts. This what the Canal administration has got ready to beforehand by implementation of New Suez Canal that succeeded in raising the Canal classification internationally by increasing it capacity, this in addition to following attracting marketing policies to encourage grand navigational lines to use the Canal instead of other alternative means.