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    Nile Report 2

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    There are 43 major river ports in Egypt under the jurisdiction of the River Transport Authority (RTA). Most of the ports are privately run by industrial companies for transporting raw materials, while one public port in Cairo is used by local forwarders and communities. RTA has completed installing navigation aids like buoys and beacons on the Aswan-Cairo and Alexandria-Cairo waterways, and will begin installing them on the Damietta-Cairo waterway. Some navigation aids on the Aswan-Cairo waterway have been reported missing. River Information Services (RIS) use technology to provide waterway information and facilitate inland water transport, and have been introduced in several European countries.

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    Nile Report 2

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    There are 43 major river ports in Egypt under the jurisdiction of the River Transport Authority (RTA). Most of the ports are privately run by industrial companies for transporting raw materials, while one public port in Cairo is used by local forwarders and communities. RTA has completed installing navigation aids like buoys and beacons on the Aswan-Cairo and Alexandria-Cairo waterways, and will begin installing them on the Damietta-Cairo waterway. Some navigation aids on the Aswan-Cairo waterway have been reported missing. River Information Services (RIS) use technology to provide waterway information and facilitate inland water transport, and have been introduced in several European countries.

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    There are 43 major river ports in Egypt under the jurisdiction of the River Transport Authority (RTA). Most of the ports are privately run by industrial companies for transporting raw materials, while one public port in Cairo is used by local forwarders and communities. RTA has completed installing navigation aids like buoys and beacons on the Aswan-Cairo and Alexandria-Cairo waterways, and will begin installing them on the Damietta-Cairo waterway. Some navigation aids on the Aswan-Cairo waterway have been reported missing. River Information Services (RIS) use technology to provide waterway information and facilitate inland water transport, and have been introduced in several European countries.

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    There are 43 major river ports in Egypt under the jurisdiction of the River Transport Authority (RTA). Most of the ports are privately run by industrial companies for transporting raw materials, while one public port in Cairo is used by local forwarders and communities. RTA has completed installing navigation aids like buoys and beacons on the Aswan-Cairo and Alexandria-Cairo waterways, and will begin installing them on the Damietta-Cairo waterway. Some navigation aids on the Aswan-Cairo waterway have been reported missing. River Information Services (RIS) use technology to provide waterway information and facilitate inland water transport, and have been introduced in several European countries.

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    3) Major River Ports

     Table 2.2.5 shows the list of major river ports including some technical
    information. In the table, El Hadid and El Solb (Iron & Steel) port has already
    been demolished based on recent information from RTA. From the
    information given, major river ports in Egypt become accordingly 43 ports
    under jurisdiction of RTA.
     As seen in the table, the majority of the ports are private and there are 42 in
    total. The remaining port is public under management of RTA. Particularly,
    the private ports have been used mostly by factories, plants and other
    industrial companies, which require transporting some raw materials in their
    services. On the other hand, the public port named Ather El Nabi Port, which
    is located beside the RTA Building, is being used by local forwarders and
    communities.
    4) Navigation Aids

    For navigable IWs, such as Aswan-Cairo, Alexandria-Cairo and Damietta-Cairo


    IWs, RTA is gradually
    installing navigation aids, which include navigational buoys, signs and beacons.
    According to RTA, the
    status of the actual installation is the following:
    - Installation completed in Aswan-Cairo IW
    - Installation completed in Alexandria-Cairo IW
    - Installation to be started in Damietta-Cairo IW
    For example, as shown in the following photograph, navigational beacons are
    alternately installed at both
    banks of Alexandria-Cairo IW, which equip solar power cell units with batteries.

    Currently, it is informally reported that some and/or some parts of navigation


    aids installed are missing along Aswan-Cairo IW. The extent of the damage is
    not certain or disclosed. However, this event affects installation and
    implementation of River Information Services (RIS) as explained in the next
    section.

    5) River Information Services (RIS)


     An advanced information and communication technologies that enables not only
    to expand an opportunity for inland waterway transport but also to provide safety
    and efficiency for all the users on the waterway. The system has a role as an
    interface connected between public and private parties participating in inland
    waterway transport. It is expected that RIS will possibly facilitate preferable
    organization and management of IWT. The system could be available in the
    future for use in the commercial process

     RIS has been widely introduced, especially in several European countries, and
    it brings the following innovations to navigation operation in inland waterways.

    - Electronic navigational charts and its display information System to visualize


    navigational waterways and ship positioning information
    - A sort of standard for electronic navigational charts and waterway networks
    - Electronic ship reporting systems for information collection and distribution on
    navigation
    - Vessel tracking and tracing technologies such as Automatic Identification
    System (AIS) for
    automatic reporting of the position of ships and other safety relevant data
    - Radar systems for navigation and traffic monitoring
    - Route and voyage planning applications

     The new information technology provided by RIS will aid in providing fairway
    information service, traffic information service, traffic management, calamity
    abatement service, transport logistics information, law enforcement
    information, statistics, waterway charge and port

    2.2.3. Fleet
    Table 2.2.6 shows a list of navigation registrations and licenses. As found in the
    table, inspected and licensed fleets in 2007/2008 are smaller than those in
    2006/2007. It seems that those fleets are concentrated on Cairo-Aswan, Cairo-
    Alex and Cairo Damietta. It is observed that only tourist boats increased their
    numbers in the registrations and permits given against a decrease in the
    numbers for other fleets.

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    Table 2.2.7 presents list of cargo transport units operating on the Nile. Share of
    public sectors including River Transport Company (National Nile Company for
    River Transportation), Sugar Company and Nile Valley Authority is about 65 %.
    The remaining 35 % is in the private sectors.
    Table 2.2.8 describes the number of units by fleet type and their basic
    dimensions. It is apparent that the number of passenger boats is bigger than the
    one of cargo fleets and the share of the private sector fleets is totally bigger than
    the one of the public sectors.

    The 2003 JICA Study Report suggested a new large-sized barge system for bulk
    and container cargo transport as presented in Table 2.2.9, in order to facilitate
    competitiveness to other transport modes and to introduce environmental
    advantage for mitigating greenhouse gas etc. Along the line of the proposal, a
    private sector entity, Nile Cargo, has provided two 100 meter long large-sized
    barges for bulk and container transport use as designated in Figure 2.2.16.

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