Tomorrow in the port of Damietta, with the arrival of the container ship Hapag-Lloyd's Essen Express, will be inaugurated officially the container terminal managed by the Damietta Alliance Container Terminal (DACT), the joint venture owned by Hapag-Lloyd Damietta GmbH (39%), Eurogate Damietta GmbH (29.5%), Contship Damietta Spa (29.5%), Ship & C.R.E.W. Egypt S.A.E. (1%) and Middle East Logistics & Consultants Group (1%) ( of 10 January and 21 December 2023).

The new terminal has been designed primarily for transhipment operations, expected to account for about 80% of traffic total of containers, and will have a capacity of annual handling of up to 3.3 million TEUs. With an extension of 93 hectares, the area of the "Tahya Misr 1" terminal, with the its 1,670 meters of quay and a depth of seabed of -18 meters, it is equipped with 12 ship-to-shore cranes with up to 25 rows of containers, 40 hybrid-powered RTG cranes and six railway tracks, two of which are operational in this first phase of operation of the terminal.

The first phase of the project involved an investment of over 600 million dollars.