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Suez Canal Vessel Transits: October 2018-June 2024

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This line graph shows the number of vessel transits over time. The x-axis represents month and year and ranges from October 2018 through March 2024. The y-axis represents vessel transits and ranges from 0 through 2,500. Vessel transits begin just above 1,500 in October 2018, and fluctuate until about Aril 2021, when transits begin to rise to a peak of about 2,300 in August 2023. After this peak, transits sharply decline to about 1,000 in March 2024.

Dataset Excel:

F3-14 Suez Canal Vessel Transits Oct 2018 Apr 2024.xlsx (24.31 KB)

Description:

This graph is from the 2024 Transportation Statistics Annual Report.

Source:

UNCTAD, “Navigating Troubled Waters: Impact to Global Trade of Disruption of Shipping Routes in the Red Sea, Black Sea and Panama Canal,” UNCTAD Rapid Assessment, February 2024, available at https://unctad.org/publication/navigating-troubled-waters-impact-global-trade-disruption-shipping-routes-red-sea-black#anchor_download; and UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)/Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), “Red Sea crisis: Suez Canal traffic impacts,” Panama and Suez Canal Transits dataset, available at https://data.humdata.org/dataset/the-red-sea-suez-canal-traffic.

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