The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) has signed with the terminalista company the Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) The build, operate and transfer contract for the Construction and management of the second container terminal in the area eastern port of Port Said. SCCT is the company which manages the container terminal already operating in the port Egyptian of East Port Said and is 55% owned by the terminalista company APM Terminals of the shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Maersk, 20% owned by the company terminalista COSCO Shipping Ports of the Chinese shipowning group COSCO Shipping Holdings, 10.3% from Suez Canal Authority, 5% by the National Bank of Egypt and 9.7% by private investors Egyptian.

The new terminal will occupy an area of 511 thousand meters and will have a quay of 955 linear meters. The new Landing will bring traffic capacity containerized pairs to two million teu per year that will be added to the capacity of four million teu of the terminal of SCCT currently in operation occupying an area of 1.2 million meters squares and has a quay line of 2,400 meters.

The second terminal, which is expected to become operational In 2025, creating over a thousand direct jobs, it will be equipped with 12 STS quay cranes, 30 rubber gantry cranes and 90 port tractors.