Omanghana
Egypt is developing eight international logistics corridors linking its Red Sea and Mediterranean ports with the Suez Canal, inland production centers and routes to neighboring markets, Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir has said.
The corridors are designed to combine railways, electric high-speed trains and highways with dry ports and seaports. By improving connections to industrial, agricultural and mining areas, the government hopes to move freight faster and reduce transport costs. The routes are being implemented at different stages; the announcement does not mean all eight are complete.
Among them is the Sokhna–Alexandria corridor, intended to link Egypt’s Red Sea and Mediterranean coasts through major transport and industrial centers. The Arish–Taba route forms part of plans to strengthen trade connections towards the Levant, while Safaga–Qena–Abu Tartour is designed to serve mining and industrial areas in the country’s interior.
The other routes are Cairo–Alexandria, Tanta–Mansoura–Damietta, Gargoub–Salloum and Cairo–Aswan–Abu Simbel. An eighth corridor is planned from Berenice through Aswan and East Oweinat to Kufra in Libya and N’Djamena in Chad. Egyptian officials describe that route as a potential trade link between the Red Sea and landlocked Central African markets.
The transport program accompanies an expansion of Egypt’s ports. El-Wazir said they handled 233 million tones of cargo and 11.1 million twenty-foot equivalent units of containers in 2025, increases of 12% and 25%, respectively, from 2024. The government also plans to establish five new commercial ports, bringing the total to 19, while expanding existing facilities.
Egypt hopes the combined investments will attract more transit trade between Africa, Europe, Asia and the Gulf. The extent of those gains will depend on completing the corridors and making their road, rail and port connections work as a coordinated freight network.
Source: Omanghana
