Public Enterprise Sector Launch Int’l Trade Africa Conference

Hesham Tawfik the public enterprise sector minister, opened on Tuesday , ‘Bridges for International Trade in Eastern and Central Africa’ conference. The event was attended by Amr Nassar the Trade and Industry Minister, and Arab Organization for Industrialization Chairperson, Abd Moneim Al-Taras.

During his speech, Tawfik presented the Ministry's vision to develop an integrated system for foreign trade, discuss ways of cooperation with the export councils, as well as exchanging views and ideas.

Also, he reported that the Ministry would contract with a global operator to manage trade services for three years, and would also contract with private sector investors to participate in the warehouse management to be established in Zambia and Uganda.

Hesham Tawfik and other officials in the International Trade Africa’ conference

In addition the Ministry will operate a regular maritime transport line from Ain Sokhna port to East Africa starting next October.

The supply chain includes; shipping, local and foreign warehousing, as well as insurance and business development services to access foreign markets and marketing Egyptian products.

Noteworthy, the Ministry plan aims to launch an integrated and sophisticated transport and logistics services to support the foreign trade system and provide bridges to Africa for the promotion of intra-trade.