CAIRO- Annual revenue from Egypt's Suez Canal rose by $300 million to $5.9 billion, the canal authority chairman said on Tuesday.

The canal is the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia and one of the Egyptian government's main sources of foreign currency.

(Reporting by Yusri Mohamed; writing by Nadine Awadalla; editing by Jason Neely) ((Nadine.Awadalla@thomsonreuters.com;))