Suez Port

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The Suez Port (also called Port Tawfiq) is an Egyptian port located at the northern tip of the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea at southern entrance of the Suez Canal, serving the canal and the city of Suez. It is owned and operated by the Ministry of Transport's General Authority of Red Sea Ports,{{Cite web |title=الهيئة العامة لموانئ البحر الأحمر {{!}}{{!}} الموقع الرسمي |url=http://rspa.gov.eg/port-suez.html |access-date=2023-01-02 |website=rspa.gov.eg}} and is home to the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) shipyards.{{Cite web |title=SCA - Port-Tawfik Shipyard |url=https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg:443/English/Shipyards/PTShipyard/Pages/default.aspx |access-date=2023-01-02 |website=www.suezcanal.gov.eg |language=en}}

History

{{See also|Suez}}Originally named Port Tewfik (or Port Tawfiq) after the then ruler Khedive Tewfik, the port was built in 1867 by the Suez Canal Company, and was part of its eponymous company town then at the outskirts of the town of Suez. It included a branch for the company and segregated housing for European management and Egyptian workers designed and built by French architects and contractors.{{Citation |last=Piaton |first=Claudine |title=European construction companies in the towns along the Suez Canal |date=2021-03-02 |url=http://books.openedition.org/inha/12729 |work=Building Beyond The Mediterranean : Studying The Archives of European Businesses (1860–1970) |pages=92–103 |editor-last=Godoli |editor-first=Ezio |series=Hors collection |place=Paris |publisher=Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art |language=en |isbn=979-10-97315-01-6 |access-date=2023-01-02 |editor2-last=Peyceré |editor2-first=David}} Port Tewfiq was the third port town to be built by the company along the canal after Port Said and Ismailia.{{Cite journal |last=Carminati |first=Lucia |date=2020 |title=Port Said and Ismailia as Desert Marvels: Delusion and Frustration on the Isthmus of Suez, 1859-1869 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0096144218821342 |journal=Journal of Urban History |language=en |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=622–647 |doi=10.1177/0096144218821342 |s2cid=150024329 |issn=0096-1442|url-access=subscription }}

Geography

Image:Iss016e019375.jpg into the Mediterranean Sea near Port Said]]

Enclosed in breakwaters is the artificial El Mira-El Gedda bay.

Port Tewfik: to the West of the Suez Canal entrance. It uses the enclosed Ibrahim Dock.
Petroleum Dock located on the east side of Suez port.{{cite web |title=Petroleum Port |url=http://mts.gov.eg/en/content/38-Petroleum-Dock-port |website=Maritime Transport Services |accessdate=17 September 2018}}
Ataka Port fishing port; borders are limited by the port breakwaters.{{cite web |title=Attaka Fishing Port |url=http://mts.gov.eg/en/content/122-Attaka-Fishing-Port |website=Maritime Transport Services - Gov't of Egypt |accessdate=17 September 2018}}

The waters outside the boundaries of Ibrahim Dock, Petroleum Dock, Ataka Port, Adabiya Port and New Petroleum berth are within the Suez Canal jurisdiction.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

External links

[https://archive.today/20130106125630/http://www.emdb.gov.eg/ports/commercial/suez/map.aspx?level=2&n=6 The Suez port]

References

Category:Ports and harbours of Egypt

Category:Suez

Category:Ports and harbours of the Arab League

Category:Transport in the Arab League

Category:Ports and harbours of the Red Sea