Egypt to establish 7 major corridors linking production areas to ports

Egypt’s Transport Ministry announced on Friday that work is underway to establish seven integrated logistics corridors linking industrial, agricultural and mining production areas to ports on the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

The ministry explained in an official statement that, “The corridors include linking seaports on the Red Sea to seaports on the Mediterranean and serving new urban communities via a network of diesel railways and a fast electric train, or a network of main roads passing through dry ports and logistics areas located on these corridors.”

The statement added that these integrated logistics corridors are represented by the Sukhna-Alexandria Logistics Corridor, Arish-Taba Logistics Corridor, Cairo-Alexandria Logistics Corridor, Tanta-Mansoura-Damietta Logistics Corridor, Gergoub-Salloum Logistics Corridor, Cairo-Aswan-Abu Simbel Logistics Corridor, and finally the Safaga-Qena-Abu Tartour Logistics Corridor.

According to the ministry, these logistics corridors come as part of Egypt’s 2030 Sustainable Development Plan, implementing the state’s vision to transform the nation into a regional center for transportation, logistics, transit trade, and developing the transportation system at the republic level.