Alexandria Port

Investment Opportunities in Alexandria Port

• The Authority proposed the establishment of a green terminal in Alexandria as follows:
  • The project was tendered to international investors to submit bids for the establishment of a green terminal in Alexandria Port to import and export perishable goods.
  • The Port Authority received a proposal from an Egyptian/Slovenian association (Container Engineering Co. from Egypt and Coper Port–Slovenia)
  • The Authority received only one proposal so the tender was cancelled
  • The Port Authority decided to re-consider the study and expand its scope to include the impacts of the project on the environment especially that there is a coal terminal near the project's proposed area and it is planned to be transferred to El Dekheila Port away from the project's area.
  • The environmental impacts study showed that there is an air pollution exceeding the acceptable limits and the green terminal operations criteria. Thus the Port Authority decided to postpone the project of the until the coal terminal is transferred to El Dekheila Port.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Alexandria Port Authority and Coper Port Authority in Slovenia signed on 3/1/2001 a Memorandum of Understanding on port cooperation. Within the framework of such a MOU and within phase 1 of Motorways of the Sea Project supported by the European Union, the two ports signed a MOU on 8/10/2009 on the cooperation for the operation of a direct shipping line to enhance the trade between them especially in perishable goods . it is planned that next March the two ports will obtain the technical assistance from the European Commission (training, Information Technology, marketing studies, cargo inspectors training, harmonization of documents and procedures related to exports, imports and clearance) in order to support the establishment of the direct shipping line.
  
  

Source :Central Department of Planning-General Department of Finance and Investment / February 2011