Monday 25/Aug/2025 – 07:51 PM
The General Authority for River Transport, affiliated with the Ministry of Transport, issued Administrative Decision No. 255 of 2025, which defines the rules and procedures for licenses for the non -automatic river units. The decision aims to organize work and ensure safety by setting strict technical standards for floating boats, equipment and restaurants.
First: floating units, restaurants, hotels
The decision obliges the owners of these units to provide detailed engineering drawings, whether the unit is existing or new. These graphics must include all construction, electrical, and escape aspects. It is also required to be approved by an accredited marine consultant office or an engineer from an Egyptian university specializing in shipbuilding.
The decision also put record dimensions for the new units to ensure navigation safety:
Total length: no more than 72 meters.
The maximum width: No more than 15 meters.
The maximum height: No more than 11.5 meters.
The maximum brutal: no more than 1.6 meters.
Second: Passengers and cars
The decision determines special technical requirements for the intuition, as it is obligatory to provide detailed engineering drawings that explain the overall arrangement and detailed construction plans, including the helm, the rudder column, and the means of conducting the infectious “wire, jenzer, etc.”, these drawings should be designed by a certified marine consultant office with the authority.
Lifting on dehydration
To ensure periodic maintenance and the integrity of the units, the decision provides for:
Lifting periods: All non -automatic units must be raised on the dehydration of “alienation” every 4 years.
Exceptions: Excluded from the transport units of cargo, knees and transparency, which are raised every 6 years.
Maintenance work: During the lifting, several mandatory works must be carried out, such as matching engineering drawings, reviewing the condition of the body in terms of corrosion, and conducting maintenance of generators and locked up, in addition to painting the submerged part of the body.
This decision aims to organize the sector and unify technical standards, in a way that contributes to raising the level of safety and efficiency in river transport in Egypt.
The last accident incidents
Last May, a number of deputies and politicians called for tightening control of the Nile ferryboards and solving their problems, and considered them a chronic danger that needs a decisive confrontation and finding safe alternatives to preserve the lives of citizens, especially with the repetition of such incidents, and they also called for the detection of the circumstances of the accident of the fall of a microbus that was coming from a village in the Ashmoun Center in the Menoufia Governorate in the winds of Al -Buhairi in the Al -Qanater facility area and resulted from the accident 15 Death.
Representative Maysa Atwa, a member of the Social Solidarity Committee in the House of Representatives, condemned the reality of a microbus coup from the top of the Abu Ghaleb ferryboat at the Al -Qanater facility center in the sea wind water.
Representative Maysa Atwa said that the ferries are one of the most dangerous and secure transportation, and it does not take more than two minutes, but it is long for her waiting time to reach sometimes for more than an hour.
