The team, Engineer Kamel Al-Wazir, Minister of Transport, yesterday discussed with his Sudanese counterpart, Engineer Hisham Abu Zeid, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nile Valley Maritime Authority, the creation of a modern artery that guarantees speed of transportation. goods and travelers with world-class quality and efficiency through Lake Nasser, as well as the adoption of technical, financial and legal measures to select an investment company to manage and operate the Authority’s assets on the Aswan – Wadi Halfa shipping line.
During the discussion of the long-awaited project, the minister said that the support of the authorities allows him to truly compete with land transport, which is carried out through the ports of Arkin and Kastal on the Egyptian-Sudanese border, through the transfer of experience, the introduction of a multimodal transport system, marketing, the development of human skills for workers and their rehabilitation in accordance with existing systems and modern management.
It also leads to an increase in trade exchange between Egypt and Sudan and to the power to be the core of the shipping line connecting the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Victoria, especially with the modernization of loading and unloading mechanisms and the use of the ports of High Dam and Wadi Halfa, as well as the addition of activities and services for transportation of containers across Lake Nasser – Nubia, which is done for the first time. After the freight cost can be reduced by at least 30%. The minister also stressed that partnership with the private sector is an important step to advance the power and get the most benefit from this sector in the transport of goods, and that the Egyptian government strongly supports this project, which is an innovative model of cooperation between the two brotherly countries.
For his part, Dr. Hisham Abu Zeid said that the Nile Valley Authority is an ideal icon for joint cooperation, and we support everything that promotes the development and progress of the Administration to push the development process and return it to a previous era in the transfer of people and goods between two parties in a special way.
