Thursday 05/Jun/2025 – 06:24 AM
The General Authority of Alexandria Port received a high -level delegation from the Kenyan Ports Authority, on a three -day official visit, with the aim of activating the memorandum of understanding signed between the two sides earlier this year.
The most prominent port projects and its development during the past years
The delegation was received by Major General Bahri AH Ihab Mohamed Salah, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority of Alexandria Port, where he conveyed the interest of the Ministry of Transport in strengthening the Egyptian -Kenyan cooperation in the field of maritime transport.
During the opening meeting, he stressed the depth of relations between the two countries and the authority’s readiness to provide all means of technical and technical support to the Kenyan side, especially in the areas of exchanging experiences, training, digital transformation, and environmental sustainability.
The visit program witnessed a number of meetings and coordination meetings that dealt with ways to activate the areas of joint cooperation, and the most prominent port projects and development were reviewed during the past years, including expansion projects, digital transformation, and raising the efficiency of logistical services.
The visit included field tours to the marine passport, the port museum, and the multi -purpose Live Egypt Station, in addition to inspecting the sidewalks, Al -Maleh, Al -Dekheila Port and its investment project.
Organizing an expanded naval tour on one of the latest locomotives
A part of the visit was focused on practical and field aspects, which showed the advanced maritime capabilities of the authority, as an expanded naval tour was organized on one of the latest locomotives that recently joined the fleet of the commission with a power of 70 tons. During the tour, a real diagonal maneuver was implemented to receive a commercial ship from the moment it entered the port until its lamb on the sidewalk, which won the praise of the Kenyan side because of its high efficiency in the management of marine operations.
Two additional maneuvers, the first to simulate a marine fire and extinguish it using specialized marine extinguishing units, and the second to cleanse the water surface using cleansing starch.
For its part, the delegation expressed great interest in the environmental and digital technologies used, the speed of response, and the level of professional training for workers in marine units, which reflects the level of readiness and development enjoyed by the port and its efficiency.
In the context of expanding the areas of cooperation, the delegation visited the Egyptian Company for the Reform and Building of Shons, where the two sides discussed the prospects for partnership in the fields of maintenance and marine manufacturing, and the delegation visited the Ports Training Institute, and discussed on setting effective cooperation mechanisms in the fields of training and capacity building.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed during the Egyptian -Kenyan Presidential Summit held in January 2025 at the Federal Palace, where it was signed by the Egyptian side, the engineer, the entire minister, the Minister of Industry and Transport, and on the Kenyan side, the First Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, in the presence of His Excellency President Abdel Fattah Al -Sisi and His Excellency President William Roto, President of the Republic of Kenya.
