Alexandria port is one of the oldest ports of the world since its roots extend to 4000 years, dating back to ancient times by the establishment of a port west of the island of Pharaoh (Faros). It was built in 1900 B.C in the same place of an old village called “Rakoda“, its location is north and island called Faros, Which is currently Ras EL-Teen. For several centuries, there has been a substantial decline in this port, and most of it was covered by a bulk of sand. .
Alexander the Greater came to Egypt in 331 B.C and started the construction of Alex city to be the marine base of his fleet.
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In the era of Alexander the Great Engineer Dinocrat constructed the port of Alexandria by linking the island Faros with the beach by a bridge length of about 1200 meters and width of 200 meters. It was called (Altitasnar) and thus two basins one in the north-east and was used for the purposes of war (eastern port currently) and the south-west and was used for commercial purposes (The current location of the port of Alexandria).
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In the Ptolemy era, they built a bridge to connect Faros island with the new city, this bridge form two ports (the eastern & the western). Ptolemy the second built the famous Polite tower Faros which was considered as one of the seven World wonders, this was damaged because of an earthquake happened in the fourth century.
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At the end of Mohamed Aly's era (the builder of modern Egypt 1810-1849) the shipyard was built and El-Mahmoudia channel was dogged, since that era Alexandria entered the new era of multi-modal transport.
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In the era of President Hosni Mubarak the port of Alexandria has evolved considerably in line with the rapid development of the permanent movement of ships, and the development in maritime transport. President Hosni Mubarak focused on the development of the port of Alexandria so as to eliminate the massive bottlenecks that have occurred in port. The Port of Dekheila was constructed as a natural extension of the port of Alexandria and has been operating temporarily in 1986 to keep pace with the evolution of the movement of ships, means of shipping and unloading, containers and the movement of electronic management.
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Measures have been taken to implement the intensive development of the ambitious plans for the current and future development of the ports of Alexandria and Dekheila. This is to access the ports to the global and to recover their status between ports of the Mediterranean basin.
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