Suez Canal is raking in the revenues: before the US invasion of Iraq last year, Egypt's Suez Canal Authority predicted that a fully-fledged war in the Middle East would disrupt regional maritime traffic, slashing canal revenues by 10% or more. In reality, exactly the opposite has happened.

The Middle East | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

THE SUEZ CANAL IS IN THE MIDST OF booming volumes, sparked by a jump in Chinese exports to Europe and, to a much lesser extent, US military cargo bound for Iraq.

Last year, the Suez Canal generated $2.57bn in revenues--the highest in the canal's 135-year history--as 15,634 ships transited the waterway with a combined cargo of around 548 million tons, up from $1.8bn the year before.

Anil Vitharana, president of United Arab Agencies Inc. in Cranford, N.J., said Iraq-bound cargo is at a "trickle" compared to the huge volumes moving in the Asia-Europe trade.

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