Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) in Egypt is already consolidating its status as a global investment centre with a promising new alliance with Singapore. Through this partnership, the industrial growth activities and modernization of port operations within the strategic maritime positions in Egypt are expected to be enhanced.
The cooperation between the Suez Canal Economic Zone of Egypt and the state of Singapore is an important milestone towards East East economic integration. Waleid Gamal El-Dien, the Chairman of the General Authority of the Suez Canal EconomicZone, has recently met with Singapore Ambassador to Egypt, Dominic Goh, with a view to discussing large-scale investment opportunities within the sphere of industrial areas and seaports.
The nature of the Suez Canal Economic Zone is the availability of 21 various industrial and logistics industries to the investors, making it an inviting place for Singapore companies who are interested in expanding their operations. Such investment opportunities are in the manufacturing, supply chain, and port operation sectors, which give different business entry points to Singapore enterprises.
Gamal El-Dien opines that the strategic vision of the Suez Canal Economic Zone brings about the concept of creating smooth integration of ports with industrial zones. This strategy links industrial and manufacturing processes to the world markets directly due to its six ports that are situated in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea through this authority.
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The collaboration with Singapore introduces state-of-the-art know-how in the use of ports to the Suez Canal Economic Zone. These high-level smart port management systems will be introduced into the SCZone facilities and will no longer be in use in Singapore, and will lead the a significant change to the current technologies in the Egyptian maritime infrastructure.
Planning is already being made with the Singapore Cooperation Agency (SCE) towards facilitating the transfer of the world-renowned port management that Singapore has. Through this partnership, the most sophisticated smart port management systems will be introduced to the Suez Canal Economic Zone, which will take operational capacity to the next level.
The chairman highlighted that this Singapore partnership is one of the initiatives of the Singapore partnership to facilitate the digital transformation strategy of the Suez Canal Economic Zone in relation to the ports. In implementing Singapore technologies in managing the port, agency performance, the SCZone will have an added advantage to enhance performance in governance indicators and optimise operations by overseeing all facilities.
