Last year, ship traffic in the Suez Canal recorded a decrease of -3.4% as 12,758 ships passed compared to to 13,213 in 2024. In 2025, transits in the Egyptian channel have started to show a recovery in the last two months of the following year that some shipping companies have begun to report the ships on the route that crosses it, that this had been abandoned following attacks on ships that the Houthis had started conducting since the end of 2023 in the region of Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. However, transits totals that occurred in 2025 are still -51.7% lower compared to those of 2023, when the record was reached with 26,434 transits, and -46.5% compared to those of 2022 when the crisis had not yet begun.

Last year, tanker transits in the canal marked a slight growth of +0.7% on 2024 having been 4,991, a number that is -40.8% lower than the transits of tankers recorded in 2023 and -24.5% compared to those of 2022. In addition, 7,767 ships of other countries passed through the canal in 2025. type, with a decrease of -6.0% on 2024, a decrease of -56.8% on 2023 and a decrease of -55.0% on 2022.

The net SCNT tonnage of ships transiting in 2025 is 521.7 million tonnes, with reductions in respectively by -0.6%, -66.7% and -63.0% over 2024, 2023 and 2022.

In the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, the Egyptian channel was crossed by a total of 3,426 ships, with an increase in +9.0% over the same period of the previous year, of which 1,330 tankers (+13.5%) and 2,096 other types of ships (+6.4%), for a total of 145.5 million tons SCNT (+23.8).

In December 2025 alone, traffic was 1,138 ships, an increase of +13.1% on December 2024, of which 461 tankers (+21.3%) and 677 other vessels (+8.2%).