Last month, ship traffic in the Suez Canal surge further as 1,490 ships transited, with a increase of +32.1% over October 2025. This was announced by the Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie, Sidelines of a working dinner of the Association of Entrepreneurs Egyptians held on Wednesday. Rabie specified that the net tonnage of ships transited in October 2026 is 88 million tonnes (+86.8%) and transit rights paid by the ships transited during the month amounted to 724 million of dollars (+94.1%).

Rabie highlighted that the performance of the Suez Canal are experiencing significant improvement despite the current geopolitical challenges in the region, and it has been said that confident that this positive trend will continue as Most of the world's shipping companies will resume to transit through the canal, whose role is vital for the sustainability and stability of supply chains global sourcing.