Government could hire private consultant to further study hike in port fees

Government to revisit East Port Said port fees? The government appears to be leaning towards hiring a neutral consultant to look into the impact of a hike in port fees in East Port Said that prompted five major shipping lines to suspend operations there in protest back in March, Al Mal reports. K-Line, one of the five companies, had set scrapping the hike as a condition for its return and said that its executives were in talks with Egyptian officials and would be meeting with Transport Minister Hisham Arafat in London to resume discussions.