Transport Ministry to issue tender for Sohag river port in mid-July

The Transport Ministry is planning to issue a tender to operate the EGP 200-300 mn Sohag river port by mid-July, according to River Transport Authority (RTA) head Abdel Azim Mohamed. The ministry broke ground on the project last week. The project is the second of several river ports the ministry plans to develop along the Nile in Upper Egypt. Arafat had said the ministry would launch river port tenders once legislation regulating river traffic and commercial transport is passed. The bill, which the Ismail Cabinet signed off on in August last year, is still before the House of Representatives. On that front, the RTA is looking to complete a EUR 9.2 mn river traffic control system project by the end 2018, a project funded through a loan from the Austrian government, Mohamed said, according to Al Shorouk.