Visit to Damietta Container Terminal
Greetings from the College of International Transport and Logistics in New Alamein to Damietta Port Authority. The visit of the students of the College of International Transport and Logistics in El Alamein continues the tour of specialized field visits to Egyptian ports, logistics centers and dry ports.
On Thursday, March 24, 2022, the Damietta Port Authority will host our dear students, headed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Rear Admiral Walid Awad, the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Damietta Port Authority, Admiral Prof. Tarek Adly Abdullah, and the Director of the Office of the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors Sherif Magdy El-Meligy And General Manager of Public Relations, Mamdouh Al-Shaiti. The delegation of the college was accompanied by Mr. Mahmoud Abu Al-Khair, Head of Internal and External Relations Department at Damietta Port Authority throughout the visit period, which began with a lecture on Damietta Port Authority and its future projects from the wonderful engineer/Mohamed Al-Tarabili from Integrated Solutions Company.
The students visited the port container terminal, which is one of the most important terminals in the region. It has four container berths, their length are 1,50 meters, depth are 14.5 meters, and are occupies an area of 465,000 square meters, and it has an area for future expansions of about 800,000 meters. The port container terminal is equipped with ten winches, and the terminal handled - according to the latest statistics during 2004 - more than one million containers, and was provided with an information system, which helps effectively in planning and monitoring yards, ships, railways, and container handling equipment, and also helps to increase the efficiency of the terminal and reduce trading equipment. It is possible to load and unload third and fourth generation ships on all sixteen berths of the port, with a total length of about four thousand meters, and a depth of between 12 and 14.5 meters. The station provides facilities, including: an area for cold storage and frozen goods of three thousand meters, and another for storing timber, steel and foodstuffs, also of three thousand square meters, and includes railway links linking the port to the national road network.
The port also includes a grain station, with a length of 600 meters and a depth of 14.5 meters, a silo for storing grains with a capacity of 150,000 tons annually, and a packing shed of five thousand square meters, with a capacity of three thousand tons per day. The port`s free zone extends over an area of 798,000 square meters To serve industrial and warehousing projects, and re-export for a reduced tariff, in addition to constructing a building to serve investors that includes all investment activities in the port, on an area of 6,357 square meters, with 235 administrative units. There is also the possibility of establishing a logistics project for the integrated industry of cars on an area of 88,000 square meters, equipped with a berth for importing, assembling, distributing and re-exporting cars, provided that at a later stage a modern integrated container terminal will be established, including the construction of a berth 1,130 meters long, 15.5 meters deep.
The participation system or the “BOT” system, at a cost of one hundred million dollars, in addition to the possibility of constructing a natural gas-fired power station with a capacity of 5 megawatts To produce the electrical energy needed for the port and for the current and future logistic projects, with the possibility of exporting the surplus to external parties in Damietta Governorate Exploiting the natural gas lines connected to the gas companies operating in the port.