Cairo, May 13, 2025 (AFP) - Egypt's Suez Canal slashes fees by 15% to lure back traffic

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2025-05-13

Egypt's Suez Canal Authority announced Tuesday it would slash transit fees by 15 percent for large container ships in a bid to draw global shipping giants back to the route. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said last month that the country had lost around $7 billion in Suez Canal revenues in 2024 due to attacks by Yemen's Huthi rebels on vessels transiting the Red Sea. In a statement, the authority's head Osama Rabie said that the temporar......

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