The blue economy is the winning card for coastal countries. According to the World Bank, which defines the emerging concept as "the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs while preserving the health of (...)
The Egyptian Authority for Maritime Safety (EAMS) reported revenues of LE1.475 billion this year, becoming one of the state's leading revenue-making authorities together with the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) and the Egyptian General Petroleum (...)
The government is establishing integrated industrial complexes nationwide in an effort to meet local demand for various industrial goods.
The complexes are not only meant as units serving specific industrial activities, but will also be the centres (...)
Egypt's first mass-transit link between Greater Cairo, the New Administrative Capital, and 6 October city and extending for almost 100km is set to be the longest monorail system in the world.
The project will involve the construction of two monorail (...)
Egypt embarked on a host of national projects some seven years ago to lay out the new infrastructure required for a modern state. The efforts started with an extensive network of roads to connect all the country's cities with each other, followed by (...)
The ancient city of Swenett, today's Aswan, has a new baby sister — New Aswan. The new city promises to be a model of the fourth-generation cities Egypt has been establishing with a large share of national and urban-planning funding.
The two Aswans (...)
The Suez Canal was in the limelight when, on 23 March, one of the largest container ships in the world, the Ever Given, got wedged diagonally in the canal for six days, blocking all traffic.
The freeing of the 1,300-foot-long ship did not, however, (...)
"Lieutenant-General Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), announced on Monday that the manoeuvres by 10 giant tugboats had succeeded in refloating the stranded Ever Given container ship and setting it on a course towards the Great (...)
More than 85 percent of Egypt's ongoing economic reform programme has been put into effect so far, newly-appointed Finance Minister Mohamed Maeet said in an interview with Al-Ahram Arabic newspaper hours before his swearing in to the new cabinet on (...)
Massive construction projects have been built in different parts of the country over the past three years, with one of them, the Rod Al-Farag Axis at one of the main entrances to Cairo, having been in the works for the past two years.
The two-way (...)
Before joining the cabinet in February, Hala al-Said, then a professor of economics at Cairo University, had often been asked what she would do if she were a minister. She always refused to answer, because she believes it is often too easy for (...)