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Suez Canal keeps strategic role for global maritime trade

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Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 10, 2018 – The Suez Canal keeps its role as a strategic junction for global merchant maritime traffic, concentrating 9% of the global trade, or about 900 million tonnes of cargo annually, a study by Egypt’s Bank of Alexandria and the survey unit of Italian lender Intesa Sanpaolo shows. The doubling of the…

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