Record Year for the Suez Canal

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 24.

Record Year for the Suez Canal

The Suez Canal, during the last year, made the largest showing of any year since its construction. The number of vessels passing through the canal during the year was 3,708, of which more than two thousand carried the British flag. The receipts were $20,744,000. The tonnage passing through the canal last year exceeded that of the previous year by 424,473 tons, and this was more than one and a half million tons in excess of the tonnage which passed through the canal in 1900.