Egypt opens a EGP 700m dry port in Alexandria to take pressure off the seaport
The Amreya dry port, Egypt's second, lets cargo be handled away from the quays. Thirty-three more are planned.
Olanrewaju Adewole
Alexandria — Egypt's Transport Minister, Kamel Al-Wazir, has opened the Amreya Dry Port in Alexandria, a EGP 700 million inland terminal where cargo can be shipped, stored and handled away from the seaport's quays, Daily News Egypt reports.
The port
- It covers 146,000 square metres.
- It sits near the first line of Egypt's high-speed electric train network and the existing railway.
- It was built for the National Refrigeration and Supplies Company, part of the National Service Projects Organisation.
- It is Egypt's second dry port. At the first, 6th of October Dry Port, cargo volumes have risen fivefold.
The minister said it should ease congestion at the seaport and on the roads and bring logistics services closer to factories and markets.
The bigger plan
- 33 dry ports and logistics zones are planned nationwide.
- The 10th of Ramadan dry port is under construction, due in mid-2027; East Qantara is due to start operating; studies are under way for Sadat and Borg El Arab.
- Nine land ports are being built or completed on Egypt's borders, including one at Kafra on a corridor towards Chad and Central Africa.
- Eight international logistics corridors are to link farms, mines and factories to the seaports by road, rail and the high-speed train.
Roads, railways, ports and logistics zones form a single system, Mr Al-Wazir said, one that lets factories reach their materials and markets and farmers and exporters move their goods on time.
Source: Daily News Egypt, 14 October 2026.
