Suez Canal's 2018 score with higher 18,000-teuer throughput.

The Suez Canal Authority saw double-digit container traffic growth as well 3.6 percent more 18,000 TEU ships using the waterway, according to a report by SRM, a study and research centre for southern Italy and the Intesa San Paolo group.

The report said cargo volumes shipped across this major trade thoroughfare in 2018 were up 8.2 percent year on year to 983.4 million tons. It highlighted how the widening of the Suez Canal led to a 12 percent spurt in the number of medium sized ships passed through in 2018 compared...