Revenue from Egypt's Suez Canal rose 4.8 percent year-on-year to $443.7m in December, but were up 1.9 percent from a month earlier, Reuters has reported. The canal's revenues in December 2010 were $423.4m. Revenues in November 2011 reached $435.5m. Last December, the Suez Canal Authority said it would raise toll fees for all vessels passing through the strategic waterway by 3 percent starting March 2012, saying tariffs had not been changed for the previous three years.
