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Mameesh (SCA): "the marine traffic in the Suez Canal is carried out regularly and totally is guaranteed"
Investments and loans of the BERS for a billion of destined euros to the project of development of the water way Egyptian
January 28, 2013
"The marine traffic in the Suez Canal is carried out regularly and totally is guaranteed". It has emphasized today vice admiral Mohab Mameesh, president and managing director of Suez Canal Authority (SCA), answering to the worries of the governments and the world of shipping for the possible impact on the transit of the ships in the channel Egyptian that could have the violent protests in existence from saturday slid in the nation African, primed from the death sentence of 21 people for the massacre happened to the stage of Port Saïd, and the consequent state of emergency for the duration of 30 days to Port Saïd, Suez and Ismaïlia yesterday proclaimed from the president Egyptian Mohammed Morsi, that the curfew has tax from hours 21 to the six.
Mohab Mameesh has explained that safety of the water way is assured by elements from teams of Marina Militare, the army, Guard Costiera and the Ministry of the Interior and has specified that "the security measures are strengthened to light of the current situation of tension in the cities of Suez and Port Saïd". Moreover the vice admiral has refuted the voices second which some ships in transit in the channel are made object of gunshots. Mameesh has concluded restating that Suez Canal Authority is determined to guarantee full safety of the channel as is one of the main resources and lines of communication of Egypt.
While the government of Cairo has announced yesterday that the general coordinator for the project of development of the Suez Canal, Waleed Abdul-Ghafor, has met a delegation of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (BERS) in order to discuss participation about the financial institution to the project Egyptian with investments and loans for a total of a billion of euro. The executive has specified that such sum takes part of 2,5 billion euros of deep that the BERS has altogether destined to Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan within 2015.
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