Meed | Egypt tenders port project

Egypt tenders port project

13 December 2024

Egypt's Transport Ministry has invited firms to submit proposals for a contract to develop a dry port and logistics centre south of Cairo.

Shaq Al-Thoban Dry Port and Logistics Centre and Free Zone project will be developed on a finance, design, construction utilisation, maintenance and transfer model.

The project site is within the Shaq Al-Thoban Industrial Area, which specialises in the marble and granite industry sectors.

The project client expects to receive bids by 18 May 2025 and has set a bid bond of $1m for the contract.

Egypt has previously awarded dry port public-private partnership (PPP) contracts.

In January 2020, it awarded the country’s first dry port PPP scheme in 6 October City to a consortium comprising Germany’s DB Schenker and local firms El-Sewedy Electric and 3A International.

The $176m contract entailed the development of 13 specialised zones to receive and store containers and liquid and dry bulk cargo. It covered multipurpose storage warehouses and an administrative area. The contract duration is 30 years.

The port is expected to handle 720 containers (20-foot equivalent units, or TEU) a day and a total of about 250,000 TEU a year.

In August last year, Geneva-based logistics firm Medlog MSC won the contract to develop Egypt’s second dry port PPP project at Cairo’s 10 Ramadan City.

The finance, design, build, operate and maintain contract is for 30 years and is valued at about $100m. The project will occupy over 250 feddans of land, with one feddan equivalent to around 4,500 square metres.

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Jennifer Aguinaldo