TRAFFIC THROUGH SUEZ.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 89, 21 May 1914, Page 10

TRAFFIC THROUGH SUEZ.

Last year- 282,235 passengers went through the Suez Canal, as compared with 266,403 - in 1912, and 275,651 in 1911. The number of ships using the canal having a draught of water exceeding 26 feet is increasing. Last year vessels of the full draught of 28 feet made 55 passages, against 32 passages in 1912. The vessel with the greatest length was the Cleveland of 588 ft 9in, while the vessel having the greatest breadth was the English cruiser Triumph, of Tift lin, which compares with the Japanese cruiser Kurama, of 75ft sin in width, in 1911. The duration of transit . was exactly the same as in 1912, namely, 16 hours 19 minutes. The number of groundings in the canal exceeding'three hours, totalled 23 in 1913, against 13 in 1912, and 16 in 1911. The total number of groundings was 65, causing delay to 120 vessels. The Indrabarah, on the 11th December, owing to bad weather in the Large Bitter Lake, remained fast for 117 hours 20 minutes.