Greater attention has been given to trade costs in both the empirical trade literature and in theoretical models of international trade in recent years, with interest increasingly being directed towards the role of no policy barriers such as transport costs. However, if distance is a proxy for transport and other trade costs, then the true effect of transport costs is impossible to determine. We attempt to remedy this by utilizing the newly compiled project of Suez Canal for Economic Co-operation and Development Maritime Transport Cost as a whole and the most important element of it, which is port efficiency.