CAIRO - The Suez Canal Authority's revenue advanced 7.1 per cent last month, the Egyptian government said on its website Monday. Revenue rose to $427.3 million in October from $398.9 million in the same month a year earlier, according to figures on the website. The number of vessels passing through the waterway increased 1.1 per cent to 1,572 from 1,555 in the same month last year, government figures showed. More than 4 million barrels a day of crude oil, or 4.7 per cent of global production, are shipped through the canal or a pipeline that runs adjacent to it, according to New York-based McQuilling Services LLC. Egypt depends on the waterway for foreign currency, along with revenue from tourism and foreign direct investment.