Admiral Mohamed Abdel Kader Gaballah, Head of Red Sea Ports Authority, said that the number of the Turkish trucks in both of Port Fuad and Suez Port amounted today to 134.
Port Fuad Port received that the ship "DODO", coming from Duba, Saudi Arabia, (...)
CAIRO - Defective ships owned by businessman Mamdouh Ismail, who absconded from Egypt, are back in action, working under other names and companies, a source at Port Tawfiq in Suez told Al-Shorouq newspaper.
"Two month ago, officials at the Egyptian (...)
CAIRO - Chief Prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud has asked Mohamed Yassin, the Public Attorney of the Red Sea Governorate, to investigate complaints, that were filed again last week by the families of the victims of a sunken ferryship.
In February (...)
Saudi authorities have decided to close the port of Duba to maritime traffic effective Sunday, 7 November lasting until Eid al-Adha, a holiday that marks the end of the Hajj season.
The move follows the closure of Egyptian ports, Safaga and (...)
Hurgada--Around 400 people lay down in the streets near Safaga seaport because of mistakes made with reservations by a number of travel companies. Passengers were supposed to board the liner el-Muttahida.
The haphazard booking process prevented (...)
Families of the victims of El-Salam 98 ferry commemorated the fourth anniversary of the ship that sunk in the Red Sea on its way back from the Saudi port of Duba in 2006.
The families staged a protest in front of the Lawyers' Syndicate, hoisting (...)
The Ministry of Transport has upgraded the alert to the highest level and around the clock at the Red Sea ports in coordination with all the health authorities of Suez, South Sinai and the Red Sea, in preparation for the arrival of the Egyptian (...)
Most Egyptian governorates were lashed by a wave of heavy rains yesterday. Roads were flooded and the ports of Alexandria, Dekheila and Hurghada were closed.
Alexandria was hit by a wave of bad weather and heavy downpours for many hours in a row. (...)
The defense in the sinking of Al-Salam 98 Ferry called for upholding a previous court ruling exonerating its client.
Dr. Mohammed Mustafa Hamouda, a member in the defense team, submitted 70 portfolios proving the innocence of his clients, as he put (...)
Safaga Port has prepared a quay for receiving the "Cairo" and "Riyadh" ferries, Minister of Transport Mohamed Mansour said yesterday in a press release.
The two ferries will travel from Safaga port to Saudi Duba Port – the route they will (...)
This week's arrangement, and then cancellation, of Cairo's first conference on Egyptian Jews has stirred up memories that some would prefer to forget, writes Dina Ezzat
"This is something from the past. Today, I am an Egyptian Christian who lives (...)
Dina Ezzat wonders how the visit by George Bush to Egypt can help Cairo and Washington manage their differences and maintain what they used to dub a strategic partnership
"So why is he coming now? Are they going to strike Iran?" wondered Hussein, a (...)
Al-Ahram Weekly takes stock of the confused domestic scene of the last 12 months and examines the prospects for 2007
Diplomatic challenges
As 2006 comes to an end, Egypt's eastern and north-eastern borders, qualified by Foreign Minister Ahmed (...)
CAIRO: Compensation offered to survivors and families of victims of the Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 ferry disaster, in which more than 1,000 people died on Feb. 3, is being inadequately distributed, according to Egyptian human rights activists.
To (...)
Focus on women
MRS SUZANNE Mubarak, head of the National Council for Women (NCW), chaired the council's 19th meeting debating the fourth annual conference to be held in March. The conference will focus on the economic empowerment of women to reduce (...)
In Safaga, Mohamed El-Sayed and Magda El-Ghitany witness the tragic ramifications of the sinking of Al-Salam Boccaccio 98
Tossed to and fro by the waves, 6-year-old Mohamed Hassanein was alone in the middle of the Red Sea. It was completely dark, (...)
It would be a vast understatement to say that Al-Salam Company for Marine Transportation has had a checkered safety record.
On 22 December 1991, its ferry Salem Express hit a coral reef off the Red Sea port of Safaga and sunk, killing 470 people.
On (...)
CAIRO: Alongside an official government investigation, local human rights groups have launched a parallel inquiry into the circumstances under which a ferry sank in the Red Sea on Feb. 3.
We ve sent a delegation to the ports of Safaga and (...)
