Today, Sunday, the Suez Canal Economic Zone announced the arrival of bunkering service floaters in the waiting area of Port Said ports, and the start of preparations for the service to enter into force within days.
This comes within the framework of implementing the directives of the political leadership to transform Egypt into a regional center for providing marine services and supplying ships, and to become a leading center for energy trading, and placing Egypt on the global ship supply map.
In this context, Walid Gamal El-Din, head of the Suez Canal Economic Zone, announced that the national committee entrusted with studying and designing the new system for marine services for supplying ships, which includes members from the Ministries of Petroleum and Transport, the Suez Canal Authority and the Suez Canal Economic Zone, has finished setting the technical and legal standards to start In launching this activity, similar to the international centers in ship supply in Singapore, Fujairah and Rotterdam.
Jamal El-Din indicated that the ship CRONUS, with a tonnage of 150,000 tons, and the two supply floats ANDROS, with a tonnage of 4,000 tons, and Kythira, with a tonnage of 6,000 tons, had arrived at the waiting area to start operating the service effectively within days.
This article was originally published by RT.