Sources:

World Trade Organization

Suez Canal Authority    

- Suez Canal Authority's performance is considered distinguished, although the value of world trade dropped by 14% in 2015. Suez Canal Authority has achieved in 2015 positive growth in its revenues reaching 2.7% SDR compared to 2014. It also achieved positive growth in the 1st quarter of 2016 reaching 0.6% compared to 2015.

 - The performance of the logistic confidence general indicators for maritime shipping declined in May 2016 by an average of 23.6% compared to May 2015. This reflects a great decline in the performance of the maritime transport sector worldwide.

- Despite the decline in the global trade, slowdown in China's growth, decrease of oil prices and the drop of the maritime freight prices, according to World Trade Organization expectations, the world commodity trade is expected to increase by 2.8% in 2016 and 3.6% in 2017. This will be reflected positively on the maritime traffic in the Suez Canal. The low performance rates of the maritime shipping companies during the 1st quarter of 2016 emphasized that the achieved growth of the Suez canal indicators in revenues and maritime traffic is remarkable given the developments of the world maritime trade.