This corridor is primarily an export and logistics route, designed to move industrial and agricultural goods between Egypt’s main production centers and the Mediterranean port of Alexandria. It also serves as a bypass for congested urban areas, supporting both trade and urban expansion (World Bank, 2024). This corridor links Egypt’s two main economic capitals, Cairo and Alexandria, to strengthen trade flows between them. It runs roughly 208–220 km northwest from Cairo along the Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road, passing through key inland nodes such as the 6th of October City and Sadat City dry ports before terminating at Alexandria Port on the Mediterranean, which is being expanded into a major logistics hub. The Cairo–Alexandria Logistic Corridor is structured around a rail bypass starting at Cairo’s Beshteel station, incorporating about 54 km of new (greenfield) railway and upgrades to approximately 350 km of existing lines, for a total rail corridor length of over 300 km(World Bank, 2022; Egypt Today, 2024), designed to ease freight congestion around Greater Cairo and enhance multimodal connectivity between dry ports, hinterlands, and the seaport.
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