*Egypt’s Suez Canal brought in record annual revenue of $5.84bn for the 2020-21 financial year (to 30 June) up from $5.75bn for 2019-20, the previous record.

*The 2020-21 record came despite the ‘Ever Given’ crisis seeing the key route being blocked for seven days in March (MEES, 26 March). Having slumped to $438mn for March, monthly revenues rebounded to a record $554mn for April as the backlog cleared. (CONTINUED - 131 WORDS)