
The activity of Egyptian ports in the cargo sector
containerized companies seem not to have been affected at all by the serious crises
geopolitics that follow one another in the Middle East region, indeed. E
Nor does it seem that the lack of impact, at least in the
containers, is mainly due to the growth of operations
transhipment carried out in the ports of call of the African nation
as a result of the change in the network of maritime services
line of the world's leading shipping companies for
allow their ships to avoid risk areas.
Last year, containerized traffic in Egyptian ports
reached a new all-time high of 11.11 million TEUs, with
an increase of +24.3% over 2024. If in 2025 the increase of only
traffic was very marked, as the
6.70 million TEUs handled (+36.0%), also the volumes of
containers in import and export have registered
marked increases having stood at 2.02 respectively
million TEUs (+9.3%) and 2.40 million TEUs (+10.6%).
In the previous year, already characterized by conflicts and
crises that have lasted into 2025, the trafficking of
in Egyptian ports had increased by +6.8%
on 2023. By 2024, transhipment traffic had remained stable
with 4.93 million TEUs handled (+0.2%), while traffic in
Imports and exports had totalled significant increases
rising to 1.85 million TEUs (+17.8%) and 2.17 million TEUs
(+14,9%).