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- Ain Sokhna Port in Egypt has an ambitious plans to revamp the port operations to maximize the returns, leveraging its exceptional geographical advantage
- The plan is to develop the port as the largest hub in the Red Sea to facilitate trade between South and east Asia, South and West Europe and North Africa
- The revamp will entail a cost of EGP 20 billion
Ain Sokhna Port in Egypt has ambitious plans to revamp the port operations to maximize the returns, leveraging its exceptional geographical advantage. The plan is to develop the port as the largest hub in the Red Sea to facilitate trade between South and east Asia, South and West Europe and North Africa.
The revamp will entail a cost of EGP 20 billion. The work will be completed within two years. As a part of the revamp, the authorities will be implementing a high speed electric train project connecting Ain Sokhna/Alexandria with New El-Alamein. This will provide multimodal transport facilities for trading between East and West. The port authorities will also build a railway network inside the port. The railway track will be built over 10 kms, which will help easy and faster movement of the cargo within the port area.
The new port will be the largest pivot port in the Red Sea and will strive to have strong linkages across Africa as also West Europe. Other amenities being built in the port include construction of four new basins and new berths with a length of 12 km and a depth of 18 meters. The port has trading yards measuring 5.6 million square meters. Apart from that, there are commercial and logistical areas including a network of railways.
