Location
Operator - Damietta Governorate
- Damietta governorate lays at North of the delta, overlooking the east bank of the river Nile.
- Due to the diversity of its economic activity, and its reliance on the human qualified factor as well as small productive units mostly owned and run by the private sector, the governorate is considered as one of the best economic patterns.
- The Damietta port was inaugurated in 1986 which is considered as an alternate port to Alexandria to decrease the freight costs, ships demurrage, and to promote the transportation of containers activity, it soon developed into an important transit port embracing the biggest containers' area around the country.
- The governorate has an industrial park near Damietta east port, covering an area of 798 000м2 allocated for the establishment of export industries projects and an industrial park south of New Damietta city on 1 260 000м2.