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small craft only carries fuel for its own consumption, as well as the crew with their
provisions.

2- Calculating Transit Dues:
a) Masters or coxswains of small crafts should register themselves at the "Small Crafts

Office" in the port of departure, and pay the required dues regarding transit, towage and
reception. In return, they will get transit permits through the Canal.
b) Transit dues are levied according to the Suez Canal net tonnage that is estimated by

SCA’s "Tonnage & Dues Auditors". Any modifications that could take place on the
small crafts should be taken into consideration when calculating transit dues for future

voyages.
c) Transit dues are levied on laden small crafts at a rate of 5 SDR units/ ton (S.C.N. T).

Whereas, the dues levied on ballast small crafts shall be reduced to a rate of 4 SDR
units/ ton (S.C.N. T). In case the small craft entered one part of the canal, transit dues

are levied as follows:
“A reduction of a quarter, half or three quarters of the transit dues shall be granted to
the small craft using only three quarters, a half or a quarter respectively."

d) Domestic Voyages between the Canal Ends:
The small crafts coming in ballast from one of the canal ends, and return laden in a

domestic voyage, as well as the laden small craft from one end of the canal to be
delivered domestically in Egypt then return in ballast, have to pay 60% of the transit
dues applied only on the laden voyage.

If the small craft is laden in both voyages, the transit dues applied shall be 60% of the
transit dues for the laden voyages in both directions.

In this case, the small craft may have a bonus of one free voyage provided that it should
be in ballast.

e) Transit Dues for Yachts
Yachts have to pay full (1) transit dues of the canal, whereas they can be exempted of

paying transit dues in the return trip provided that the return date is within 6 months
from the date of transit.
f) Fishing Boats

Fishing boats that have authorization from the Egyptian government and the Suez Canal
Authority shall not pay transit dues for their stoppage or moving in the Canal, provided

that they should not transport any passengers or commodities through the canal.

1 ) This is applied on small crafts of unified dues (tugboats, dredgers, cranes, yachts…etc.)
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