PORT SAID, Egypt
(AP) -- The head of the agency in charge of Egypt's Suez Canal says
the shipping lane has broken its record for the amount of cargo sent
through it in a single day.
Mohab Mamish,
chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, said 68 ships crossed the canal on
Friday, with a total load of 4.8 million tons. Mamish said that's the
most ever to pass through the canal in a single day since it opened in
1869.
The Suez Canal is one of Egypt's main
sources of foreign currency. Its revenues reached $438.1 million in May
2013, compared with $434.6 million in May 2012.
The
Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in 1956.
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