This statement was made during El-Wazir’s meeting with Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Sherif Farouk.

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

"We are establishing the first containers factory in Egypt in collaboration with an Egyptian company to overcome the shortage we faced while transferring goods," stated El-Wazir.

El-Wazir also proposed projects to construct and expand railway lines, including 7 new railway lines to link dry ports and logistics zones to the railway network and seaports to serve residential and industrial communities.

The ministry also set up a comprehensive plan to establish 31 dry ports and logistics zones across the country to prevent the piling up of goods and containers at ports, enhance the level of logistical service offered, mitigate the rise of goods transportation costs, link the production and consumption destinations, and limit the negative environmental effects.

For his part, Farouk emphasized the importance of coordination with the Ministry of Industry and Transport to increase the reliance on the river and railway transport systems to transfer wheat and goods efficiently.

This comes in the framework of reducing trading circles and limiting losses, which will decrease the cost and positively affect the end price of consumer goods.

The two ministers also discussed the means of cooperation between the two ministries and the coordination with governmental agencies that possess trucks to transfer goods. This would help with delivering goods to retail chains at a reasonable cost, reflecting on the price of goods at the consumer end.

This aligns with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly’s decree number 4585 of 2023 regarding mitigating prices and markets for goods.

They also discussed methods to remove obstacles that face some vessels in sea and border inland ports supplying trucks through the transportation companies linked to the transport ministry and relying more on environmentally friendly transportation methods in shipping wheat and strategic goods, which will decrease the cost of transportation.

The two ministers also discussed ways to enhance the state of food processing factories, especially oil and sugar, regarding facilitating licensing procedures, industrial registration, providing aid to struggling factories, and solving all the problems of investors, particularly with the ministry of industry.