The Transport and Communications Committee of the House of Representatives, headed by Mr. Representative / Mahmoud Al-Dabaa, the Committee’s Deputy, visited the Alexandria Port Authority today, Sunday, November 10, 2024, where they were received by Major General Ahmed Abdel-Moaty Hawash, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alexandria Port Authority, the representatives, and the port’s engineering consultant engineer, as part of the committee’s inspection tour of the port’s projects. The committee was received and given a detailed explanation of the giant projects currently being implemented in Alexandria and Dekheila ports in light of the directives of Lieutenant General Kamel El-Wazir, Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development, Minister of Industry and Transport, and in line with the vision of the political leadership. The most prominent of these is the establishment of the Tahya Misr 2 multi-purpose station on Berth 100 in Dekheila Port, which includes dredging, sand collection, soil improvement, and the construction of the berth. The explanation also included the project to establish a clean dry bulk station in Dekheila Port, a 66/11 electrical transformer station, the integrated logistics zone in the Metras Basin on an area of approximately 273 acres, and the breakwaters of the Greater Alexandria Port. The explanation also included clarifying the implementation rates, financial costs, implementation ratios, project specifications, its importance, and its impact on the operational and capacity capacities of the Alexandria Port Authority, completion rates, scheduled completion dates, their entry into the operational phase, and what these projects will reflect in terms of major development that will make the Greater Alexandria Port one of the largest ports regionally and in the Mediterranean basin, and qualify it to be on par with the fierce global competition in the field of maritime transport, ports, and logistics. In the same context, the visit included a field inspection tour of the most important projects in the Alexandria Port, most notably Station 85/3 for handling wood and grains and the logistics area in the Metras Basin on an area of 273 acres, where the honorable members of the committee praised the size of the remarkable development taking place in the Alexandria Port Authority, which will make it a locomotive for the national economy and will open up broader horizons for it in investment, trade, maritime transport and logistics and what it will achieve not only on an economic level but also on a national level by providing the highest possible services and job opportunities and maintaining the movement of goods flowing to Egyptian markets.
