Transportation in Egypt
Research
Maritime, Aviation and
Land Transportation in
Egypt
SWOT Analysis
Made by Student:
Mina Samir Anis
Maritime Transportation [SWOT Analysis]
1. Strengths:
The strategic location that Egypt enjoy now in the
heart of the maritime trade routes gives an enhanced
local and foreign trade.
Market share of the Suez Canal is 15% of the global
maritime trade traffic and links Asia to Europe in a
vital role to trading oil from Asia to Europe.
Seaports and terminals has a variety of means to
serve all types and sizes of vessels.
Egypt’s maritime transport industry was performing
very well during international financial crisis.
Egypt enjoys a stable political and economic position
makes it the desired choice for other countries for
maritime trade flow.
On another side, river Nile is linked to the Red and
Mediterranean Seas through its branches, Rashid and
Damietta.
The Nile’s width is proper to host the traffic from
south to north.
The consumption is strong enough, that lead to
enhance the transport along the Nile.
2. Weaknesses:
Seaports must be improved to reduce congestion
caused by waiting periods, and especially during
busy periods.
The merchant fleet the use maritime needs to be
upgraded.
The Egyptian ports and terminals still need more
development and advanced technology in order to
fulfil all clients’ needs.
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The type of transport used by the public and the
military is considered outdated, which leads to
inefficient transportation.
The drafts made to reach further spots by water are
very narrow and cannot be used for transport.
Al-Dekheila is a sea port which is not in line of
transport with other ports, which causes problems
during the maritime while transporting the cargo
from and to the other port.
The maritime transport in Egypt, however, still very
old and requires a large capital investments in order
to make it more reliable.
3. Opportunities:
The world is in state of recovery now, which urge
Egypt’s role to play a good move.
The seaports and terminals is not optimally used,
which leaves a blank spot for potential growth.
Egypt plans to attract private investors through
expansion of seaports’ capacity and infrastructure.
Widening the Suez Canal is crucial to receive giant
generation of transport vessels. This should increase
canal traffic as well.
There’s a good opportunity to make expansion in
Upper Egypt.
Right now, Nile is rarely used for transportation,
which allows us to exploit the latitude for more
growth.
Using the Nile as a source of transport in and out will
have a competitive edge on costs, since there’s lesser
money that goes for subsidies.
Government will be doing a part next years, by
offering new six river ports which will be ready in
2 years.
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1. Threats:
Egypt takes a long time to recover from global crisis.
The pirate activities at Suez Canal is considered a
risk in maritime adventures and the maritime
industry in general. It drives the ship master to take
careful actions, which cause loss in time and loss in
fuel and loss in efforts.
Considering the agreement which divide the Nile
water between the 10 Nile basin countries, this
represents a challenge that affect the water level in
both Sudan and Egypt.
If these river ports offered by the governments were
not ready by the agreed date, it can be a growth
obstacle.
Land Transportation [SWOT Analysis]
1. Strengths:
Land transportation is the most common way used in
Egypt’s exports and imports.
The cost for land transport is in competitive state.
Transportation of cargo along the wide and various
roads between the major cities and small villages
makes land transport able to carry huge amount of
trunks in different types and sizes.
Land transportation method had witnessed a lot of
transportations of passengers and freight through
many road travels.
The workforce needed to operate the transportation
doesn’t cost much.
The safety and availability of the land transport
methods performs as a good climate to operate the
transport business in well shaped fluidity.
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Roads infrastructure is developed to facilitate the
travel and reducing extra costs and time loss.
2. Weaknesses:
The road transport sector is not getting any profit out
of making the roads more valid for road travels.
There are numerous skilled workers in the field of
road transportation, who doesn’t get along with the
low salaries paid for their job.
Although, a huge number of travels make the
adventure safely, the roads aren’t safe enough
according to the record of land transport.
This infrastructure is not good enough, though, for
transportation, as it could not last that long that we
need to realize, even more of. And poor
infrastructure between other Arab countries, which
we have many trade agreements with.
Land transportation, as good as it, does not have any
military protection against various types of theft and
land piracy activities.
Lack of labor that was submitted to intermediate
training and obtained many skills and experience.
Traffic congestion is one thing to mention about the
conditions the transport has to suffer from, which
could disable the fluidity of the travel and generate
more time loss.
Transport climate goes un-noticed from the eye of
the law, which leaves the transport exposed to certain
law breaking situations.
The process of making a transport ready for leaving
to make her journey is not considered adequate
enough and missing more things to be done.
Law is seen as a risk to transport due to it’s
complexity of handling the road regulations.
Lack of road monitoring for enforcement of road
laws and punishment applications.
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Lack of pedestrian regulations.
Transportation lack the judicial power specialized in
handling its cases.
As how good it is to divide the cost of one adventure
between various means of transportation, which
radically is going to reduce the cost in long and short
term, Egypt rely on one transport unit to deliver the
cargo to the exact location.
In terms for managerial room, it takes high capital
usage to make transportation operating.
Transport road used to travel is not legitimate and
has no limitations or road directions for safety.
Overloaded trucks can cause road accidents due to
inappropriate roads or nonqualified truck.
No countermeasure for transport unexpected
incidents.
3. Opportunities:
On the bright side, the neighbouring economy is
growing and can be used to cope with and develop.
The technical expertise that we need already exist.
Knowledge can be accessed to gain sufficient info.
Energy usage is cheap.
Egypt possesses the endowment of environmental
clean sources of energy and supplies, like the natural
gas and scholar energy.
Large manpower availability.
Transport destinations are a free trade zones that is
well equipped to deal with the transport means.
Bank services settlements and arrangements are
developed for this type of transactions.
The enterprises are privatized, which raise the
competition and the seeking for good opportunities.
Small and medium sized enterprises is increasingly
growing.
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Private infrastructure undergoes certain development
criteria.
Business environment creates day-by-day adaptable
work climate.
4. Threats:
Egypt’s economy is poor.
The system is not aggressive towards opportunities.
High level of taxation costs.
Political situation is not stable locally or regionally.
Regional trade is very not adequate to optimise the
free trade movements in the middle-east and Africa.
The free trade areas in Africa do not have unified
road regulations.
No system is made to develop and improve the
transportation or logistics.
