يجري تنفيذ خطة شاملة لتطوير الطريق الدولي الساحلى من بورسعيد إلى السلوم بطول 800 كم لكونه الطريق الرئيسي للموانئ البحرية المصرية على البحر المتوسط ويمر بـ 7 . More A statement issued by the Ministry of Transport: The Minister of Transport follows the implementation rates of a number of road and bridge projects under implementation in Dakahlia and Damietta governorates Minister :
A comprehensive plan is being implemented to develop the international coastal road from Port Said to Sloum 800 km long to be the main road of the Egyptian seaports on the Mediterranean Sea and passes through 7 governorates and industrial areas in Port Said, New Damietta, Jamsa, Motoubas and Kafral Sheikh, and new cities such as New Damietta and New Mansoura and New Rashid ================================= The team engineer / Kamel Al-Wazir – Minister of Transport conducted an inspection tour to follow up the implementation rates of a number of road and bridge projects being implemented in the governorates of Dakahlia and Damietta, which comes under the guidance of His Excellency President Abdul Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, to implement a comprehensive plan to develop and enhance the efficiency of the current road network in conjunction with the implementation of the national project For roads to improve the service on the network, and provide the highest levels of convenience and safety to the citizens using the road network. The tour started by checking the Sherbin Bridge project under construction as part of the slide development works aimed at achieving traffic flow inside Sherbin City, where 3 overpasses are being built, the highest slider bridge for Arab drivers (the highest crossing bridge of Mansoura / West Damietta – Tanta / Damietta Railway) which has reached 98% implementation rate And the traffic bridge under construction (the upper intersection of Mansoura / West Damietta – Al-Jesh Street) and the Nazla-Dabusi Bridge under construction, which aims to connect the Sherbin axis with the eastern entrance of Sherbin city, and the minister constantly coordinated with the traffic to achieve the required traffic flow during the implementation of the bridges Then the Minister directed to follow up the development and capacity building work on Damietta / Mansoura / Mahalla / Tanta West Nile road in the distance from Sherbin to Damietta (first phase) with 38 km length (one of the ways of Hayat Karimah Initiative), which reached 95% implementation rate and where the return system was used Turning FDR paving into road efficiency After that, the Minister of Transport inspects the work sites of the first phase of the development of the coastal international road in the distance from Damietta to Jamasa / New Mansoura / until the borders of Dakahlia Governorate, 57 km long
The concrete service road with a width of 12 meters is being implemented so that the road in this distance becomes 6 lanes in each direction, (3 lanes for the main road and 3 lanes for concrete pavement dedicated for trucks, to cope with the increase in the number of trucks on roads and heavy cargo), as well as creating 18 industrial works in both directions on the service road, of which Al-Bastan Bridge on the Nile, which the Minister has checked, which includes the creation of a 1600 meter expansion bridge, 17 meters width, with 4 traffic lanes in each direction Work is underway to raise the capacity of 7 sectors from Matrouh to the 140 km slum, as well as to build a new axis south of the Hyena, the Minister of Transport stated. The team, Engineer Kamel, confirmed that the development of these sectors comes within the framework of the Ministry’s implementation of a comprehensive plan to develop the international coastal road from Port Said to Sloum, 800 km long, to be the main road of Egyptian seaports on the Mediterranean Sea (Damietta – Port Said – Alexandria) and passes through 7 governorates: Damietta, Port Said. Dakahlia, Kafr Al-Sheikh, Lake, Alexandria, Matrouh, and the industrial areas in Port Said and New Damietta, Jamsa and Motobas in Kafr Al Sheikh, and new cities such as New Damietta and New Mansoura and New Rashid, and the road is being developed to become 6 lanes in every direction 3 concrete paving lanes dedicated to trucks to counter the increase in the number of trucks On road and heavy loads
The Minister also inspects the double concrete paving road attached to the damietta port fence, which has been paved with concrete to facilitate the entry and exit of trucks from Damietta Port Governor and carry the high loads of those trucks After that, the team, Engineer Kamel Al-Wazir, followed the works of the Rafid Jamsa bridge, which has reached 85% completion rate, which includes the creation of an upper bridge towards Mansoura, Jamira bridge parallel to the existing bridge and Damira bridge, which reached 100% completion, which includes the construction of a higher bridge at kilo 11 at the entrance of a village Damira to serve the direction from Mansoura to its part and divert the current bridge to serve the coming direction from its part to Mansoura, in addition to the Al-Rawdah Bridge which has reached 85% completion rate, which includes the creation of a bridge parallel to the 14m wide bridge with 3 traffic lanes
This has already been developed the 50 km long road, so that the road becomes 3 lanes in each direction, after which the team headed an engineer Kamel Minister to inspect the project of double and increase the efficiency of the Belkas/Sherbin road, 14 km long, where the minister directed to intensify the works and double the bridge in Sandela After that, the Minister, accompanied by Dr. Ayman Mokhtar, Governor of Dakahlia, inspects the University Bridge project on the Nile in Mansoura, where the work of the bridge has been completed and the bridge is being expanded from the west side as before, and the development and expansion of the circular road linking the University Bridge and the Sindoub Bridge 4.5 km long has been completed to become 14 m with 3 traffic lanes in each direction with the creation of 2 turns to the back The Minister also informed about the rates of implementation of the 62 km East Damietta project, from Sherbin to Farskor, 25 km, where the distance from Sherbin to Mansoura was completed and the efficiency was raised by 22 km.Translated from Arabic