Major General Kamel Al Wazir - Head of Engineering Authorityfor the Armed Forces , Eng. Mohsen Salah - CEO of the Arab Contractors Company and Vice Chairman- Eng. Sayed Farouk toured the projects of Suez Canal Tunnels and Sharq El Tafriaa Port in Port Said which the Arab Contractors contributing in its execution in Canal region.
Major General Kamel Al Wazir praised the work progress and stated that Suez Canal Tunnels is the mega engineering project in Egypt currently for its capabilities and state of the art technology. He added that the Egyptian engineers, technicians and workers proved that they have a highly standard qualification in the installation of the tunnel boring machine and astonishing the foreign experts with their positive reactions towards these hi-tech. This tour started with the visit of Suez Canal Tunnels in Port Said which is part of the national plan for the development of Suez Canal Region launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to magnify the role of the region and turning into an international distinguished center in the industrial and logistic services, integrated economically and environmental and territorial balanced.
Eng. Mohammed Abou Deshish- the Project Manager declared that the works is carried out by the Joint Venture of The Arab Contractors Company and Orascom under the supervision of the Engineering Authorityfor the Armed Forces. He added that the project includes the construction of two tunnels for cars and another tunnel for the railway to link East and West of Suez Canal. These tunnels are the mega huge ones in the region. The inner diameter for each tunnel reached 11.4m, the external reached 12.6m and 30m depth under Suez Canal. The cars tunnels one of them from Port Said to Sinai and vice versa separated by 20m length. The length for each tunnel is 2.7km and the railway is 6.7km.
Then Major General Kamel Al Wazir, Eng. Mohsen Salah and Eng. Sayed Farouk toured the work progress in the quarries for East Port Said project which is carried out by the Arab Contractors Company under the supervision of the Engineering Authorityfor the Armed Forces.
The Project Manager pointed out that the AC is constructing the quarries 1000ml divided into Zone 4 & Zone 5(500ml for each). The project is about quarries for the berthage, the draft of the ship is 20m for ships with a capacity reached 170 thousand tons for containers and general goods.