The logistics passages are Sokhna-Alexandria, El-Arish-Taba, Cairo-Alexandria, Tanta-Mansoura-Damietta, Gargoub-Salloum, Cairo-Aswan-Abu Simbel, and Safaga-Qena-Abu Tartour.

The country’s first container factory is also being set up to overcome the shortage faced while transferring goods, El-Wazir said.

He also proposed projects to construct and expand railway lines, including seven new lines to link dry ports and logistics zones to the railway network and seaports.

There is also a plan to set up 31 dry ports and logistics zones across the country to prevent the piling up of goods and containers at ports, enhance the level of logistics service offered, reduce goods transportation costs, connect production and consumption destinations and limit the harmful impact on the environment, domestic media outlets reported.

The two ministers also discussed cooperation between their ministries, coordination with government agencies that have trucks to transfer goods and ways to remove obstacles that some vessels in sea and border inland ports face while supplying goods to trucks from transportation companies linked to the transport ministry.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)