October 15, 2018

Gen. Kamel El Wazir in Inspection Tour for Port Said Tunnels under Suez Canal

General Kamel El Wazir – Head of the Engineering Authority for the Armed Forces and General Ahmed Fouda, Assistant of the Head of the Engineering Authority for the Armed Forces was in an inspection tour for Port Said Tunnels under Suez Canal, which is executed by the Joint Ventures of the Arab Contractors Company and Orascom Construction under the supervision of the Engineering Authority for the Armed Forces. This was in the presence of Eng. Mohsen Salah – AC Chairman & CEO, Eng. Sayed Farouk – the Senior Vice Chairman, Eng. Mohammed Abu Desheish – the General Supervisor of the project, Eng. Ashraf Tolba – the JV Deputy Manager and the Commercial Manager of the project, Eng. Mohammed Hafez – Head of Canal and Sinai Sector, Eng. Mubarak Mansour – Manager of Sinai Branch executing the West worksite, Eng. Mohammed Samaha - the Project Manager and Eng. Amr Hamed – Manager of the Preparatory and Complementary Works. Thus, Eng. Mohsen declared that the tunnel is 4km length, the tunnel body is 2,850km, the external diameter 12.6 m and the internal 11.4 m with a level up to 24m depth under the Suez Canal and allow the passage of two cars in each direction with a net height of 5m, which facilitating the movement of containers to and from East Port Said Port and encouraging the establishment of factories in East Port Said. The total of the excavation works reached 1.5 million m3 for the entrances and exits of the tunnel and soil improvement works is 3 million m3.