{"id":577524,"date":"2022-11-27T03:54:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T03:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2022\/11\/27\/has-qatar-chosen-safaga-port\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T03:54:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T03:54:24","slug":"has-qatar-chosen-safaga-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2022\/11\/27\/has-qatar-chosen-safaga-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Qatar chosen Safaga port?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-02\"><\/a> <strong>Qatar\u2019s sovereign fund wants the port of Safaga:<\/strong> The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is reportedly in talks with the Madbouly government to develop and manage the port of Safaga under a 25-year contract, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3GFIoFJ\">Bloomberg Asharq<\/a> quotes two unidentified sources as saying. If the transaction is completed, it would mark Qatar's first entry into Egypt\u2019s ports sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Qataris have been eyeing our ports: <\/strong>Representatives from Maha Capital, the investment arm of QIA, <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/bd3f1189-fe0f-4c6d-914b-7c320d65f001\">visited Damietta port<\/a> last month after signing an MoU with the Transport Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/a1b0de2d-c348-49f4-842b-4b5f4ff1c21c\">in Septembe<\/a>r to explore investment in Egyptian container terminals. The Sovereign Fund of Egypt (SFE) and the QIA <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/79ce7f1b-589c-431f-9ed7-47f9a283f787\">inked an agreement<\/a> to cooperate on ports during President Abdel Fattah El Sisi\u2019s visit to Doha <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/79ce7f1b-589c-431f-9ed7-47f9a283f787\">earlier in September<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gulf investors have shown a significant appetite for Egypt\u2019s Red Sea ports in recent months<\/strong>, though the field has so far been dominated by Emiratis. Dubai\u2019s DP World and Abu Dhabi Ports have acquired several container terminals around the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. ADP has been hired to build and run a terminal at the ports of <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/5e296366-a7ef-480b-9002-958773f10d74\">Safaga<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/5e296366-a7ef-480b-9002-958773f10d74\">Ain Sokhna<\/a>, and recently <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/72ba8ef5-72b9-4980-95a0-3aad6a31d3c7\">bought a majority stake<\/a> in a local shipping and logistics company. DP World has been strengthening its position at Ain Sokhna port, completing a <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/2109d126-3d56-4e83-887b-c962bd51b6a7\">major expansion at the port<\/a> late last year and recently signing an agreement to build a new logistics zone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We\u2019re expecting more FDI flows to our maritime + logistics sectors: <\/strong>The Madbouly government plans to IPO <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/f071461a-67ca-4eda-97bf-6c10415a375d\">as many as four<\/a> state-owned maritime and land transport companies during 1Q 2023 as it looks to reboot its stalled privatization program, the local press has reported. It\u2019s still unclear whether port owner-operators themselves could be privatized: Transport Minister Kamal El Wazir recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almasryalyoum.com\/news\/details\/2725780\">appeared to walk back<\/a> earlier comments that the government was <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/93a18ed8-1bd2-4f78-b6b4-987ff0ecb1c8\">looking to merge seven ports<\/a> into a holding company and possibly offer it on the EGX and \/ or to strategic investors\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qatar is gearing up to make some big investments here: <\/strong>QIA earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/f72cd713-290a-4932-b374-56c1dbdcc856\">deposited USD 1 bn with the Central Bank of Egypt<\/a> as a stop-gap while it completes due diligence and finalizes agreements to purchase as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/23c6426c-0b5d-4302-aeb2-74226e86a276\">USD 2.5 bn worth of state-held stakes<\/a>in unlisted companies. The two countries have also <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/00b7a282-e808-4e11-bcb5-6f50267107bb\">held talks<\/a> about joint investments in oil and gas and in local listed firms, while Qatar Energy has been <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/c734fc23-c0c0-4322-bf5d-ce3c400e707a\">deepening its presence<\/a> in our oil and gas sector this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar\u2019s sovereign fund wants the port of Safaga: The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is reportedly in talks with the Madbouly government to develop and manage the port of Safaga under a 25-year contract, Bloomberg Asharq quotes two unidentified sources as saying. If the transaction is completed, it would mark Qatar's first entry into Egypt\u2019s ports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":577525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7278],"tags":[72,7111,2362,6411],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-577524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-enterpriseam","tag-infrastructure","tag-qatar-investment-authority","tag-qatar-egypt-relations","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"b25dff95-58b6-4c52-ad41-2a0d694c3251","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2022\/11\/411.jpg","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[577518],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Has Qatar chosen Safaga port? - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2022\/11\/27\/has-qatar-chosen-safaga-port\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Has Qatar chosen Safaga port?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Qatar\u2019s sovereign fund wants the port of Safaga: The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is reportedly in talks with the Madbouly government to develop and manage the port of Safaga under a 25-year contract, Bloomberg Asharq quotes two unidentified sources as saying. 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