Following the conclusion of the contract signing ceremony witnessed by ُEgyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly at the Cabinet headquarters today, regarding a commitment agreement to build and develop the superstructure, use, manage, operate, exploit, maintain, and re-delivery the second container terminal “Long live Egypt 1” in Damietta Port, Lieutenant-General Kamel Al-Wazir,
The Minister of Transport, in a statement in which he confirmed that we in the Ministry of Transport were honored today by signing this contract between the Damietta Port Authority and a global alliance that includes a number of the best international companies working in this field, whether in the management and development of stations or international shipping lines, which is the alliance of “Eurojet Germany” companies. , “Conchip Italia”, and “Hapag Lloyd”
In addition, national Egyptian companies specialized in the field of maritime transport. During his statement, the Minister of Transport indicated that the length of this station is about 2 km long, with depths of up to 18 meters, explaining that these depths are considered the largest of its kind and that stations have been implemented in all ports in Egypt, and this project that we are in the process of It comes within the framework of the Ministry of Transport’s planning to implement the directive of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, to make Egypt a center for global trade and logistics.
Lieutenant-General Kamel Al-Wazir added that today we are adding to Damietta Port a new container terminal that will add about 3.5 million containers annually in handling capacity, pointing out that the most comprehensive and largest project, which was agreed upon with the coalition, is to establish a corridor or a logistics hub entirely based primarily on the terminal.
In the port of Damietta, then it goes to a group of large logistic or industrial zones starting from Damietta to Upper Egypt, passing through the Delta and Cairo until the idea of the large logistic axis is realized;
In pursuit of the overarching goal that we are working to implement in accordance with the directives of the President, which is for Egypt to be a center for logistics.
The minister said: We are not only working in the port of Damietta, but also in the ports of Alexandria, Dekheila, Sokhna, Safaga, Gerboub, and all other Egyptian ports that we aim to develop operations in and increase the number of berths and trading yards; In order to achieve a qualitative leap in the field of maritime transport in the Egyptian state,
In addition to accelerating procedures to increase the handling capacity in the ports, as well as increasing the lines of the Egyptian fleet, and increasing the number of ships that we will use during the coming period. In this context, the Minister of Transport indicated that we can thus confirm that we have a comprehensive plan to develop the maritime transport sector in Egypt.
The minister concluded his statement by renewing his congratulations to the workers in the Ministry of Transport, especially in the Damietta Port Authority, the Chairman of the authority, and its employees for this agreement, and he also congratulated the officials of the global alliance.
Stressing that we were honored to sign the agreement contract with this great and strong global alliance, Calling on them all success and that we end As Egyptians, the establishment of the infrastructure of the station by the end of this year or during the first quarter of next year, and to coincide with that the start of the alliance to prepare the equipment and start preparing the superstructure of the station so that we can operate it in the middle of next year or in the last quarter of it.t.
For his part, Mr. Thomas Eckelmann, Chairman of the German “Eurojet”, expressed his honor today to sign a cooperation contract with the Ministry of Transport, with our partners in Italy, and the largest international shipping lines and said: In fact, May 10, 2022, has become an important date.
We, as partners, are happy with this partnership with Egypt, noting that his company is the largest container operator in Germany, and we, as an alliance, are among the top four in the world as operators of terminals, shipping lines, and logistic activities.
Eckelman added that we have started cooperating with the Ministry of Transport in Egypt in 2018, and we have cooperated very well in order to transform Damietta Port into an important container hub in the eastern Mediterranean region,
Thanking the Minister of Transport for his great support to them since the start of work, pointing out in At the same time, the President of the Republic met with them several times, where the President affirmed his strong support for them, and “Eckelman” indicated to the Prime Minister’s affirmation of his support for them as well. He thanked the political leadership and Dr. Mustafa Madbouly for this great support, which resulted in a huge project. With large investments in the port of Damietta,
Stressing that they have in the alliance very strong confidence in the Egyptian economy. He said that our group aims from this project, which we are implementing, which starts from the port of Damietta, is to transform the port into the largest international container terminal in the world. He thanked again the Ministry of Transport and the Minister and expressed his pride and pride in cooperating with the ministry.
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