DP World opens Egypt’s first integrated logistics hub at Sokhna

Sokhna centre will help firms serve Egypt, Africa, Gulf and Europe from one hub

Last updated: July 02, 2026 | 09:13

Nivetha Dayanand, Assistant Business Editor

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DP World opens Egypt’s first integrated logistics hub at Sokhna

Dubai: DP World has launched Egypt’s first fully integrated logistics distribution centre at Sokhna Logistics Park, giving global companies a single hub to serve Egypt, Africa, the Gulf and Europe.

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The new centre is located next to Sokhna Port within the Suez Canal Economic Zone, placing it along one of the world’s busiest trade corridors. It brings together freight forwarding, port services, warehousing, inventory management, customs facilitation, order fulfilment, and transport coordination on a single platform.

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The launch was attended by Egypt’s Prime Minister, Dr Mostafa Madbouly, senior government officials, and representatives of international companies. It also coincided with Essa Kazim's first visit to Egypt since he became Chairman of DP World.

The first three customer agreements were signed at the launch, giving the facility an immediate commercial start.

Faster access to key markets

DP World said the logistics distribution centre will allow companies to hold stock closer to end customers, cut delivery times and manage supply chains more efficiently from a single location.

The centre will also offer value-added services such as assembly, packaging, repackaging, labelling and product customisation. Companies will be able to retain ownership of inventory until final distribution, giving them greater control over stock and cash flow.

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First customers signed

The first customers include a Kenya-based tea exporter that handles around 1,000 TEUs annually into Egypt and plans to use the facility as a regional inventory hub for distribution across Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

A major consumer goods distributor will use the centre to support operations across eight markets covering Saudi Arabia, the Levant and the Horn of Africa. A dedicated temperature-controlled facility within Sokhna Logistics Park will back its operations.

A German multinational company specialising in fibre-optic cables and digital infrastructure will also use the logistics centre to strengthen its distribution and re-export activities across Egypt, North Africa and the GCC markets.

More than $1.4 billion invested

DP World has invested more than $1.4 billion in logistics infrastructure across Egypt, including the expansion and modernisation of Sokhna Port, the development of Sokhna Logistics Park and a cold chain facility that is currently under development.

The company said the wider network, supported by its freight forwarding, contract logistics and supply chain services, will help businesses reduce costs, strengthen export competitiveness and move goods more smoothly across regional and global markets.

Nivetha DayanandAssistant Business Editor

Nivetha Dayanand is Assistant Business Editor at Gulf News, covering aviation, financial markets and commodities. A business and financial journalist with a strong interest in multimedia storytelling, she regularly takes complex financial and economic subjects beyond the written word, producing explainer videos that make them easier for a wider audience to understand. Nivetha has interviewed senior policymakers, business leaders and global financial figures both on and off camera. Her past guests include UAE Minister of Economy and Tourism Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud, a member of the House of Saud and the founder and CEO of KBW Ventures, Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund and Indian ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and N. Chandrababu Naidu. She has also hosted and moderated panels, conferences and awards shows, bringing her newsroom experience to live conversations on business, finance and the economy. An Erasmus Mundus journalism alum, Nivetha is drawn to stories that affect people directly and to reporting that gives a platform to voices that might otherwise go unheard. She was among the first journalists to speak to Petrofac employees in the UAE about unpaid salaries, broke the news of the planned demolition of Dubai’s well-known “Toyota Building”, and helped set the record straight on widely circulated claims that a giant replica of the Moon was coming to Dubai. More recently, her exclusive interview with EDGE Group CEO Hamad Al Marar revealed how the UAE-based defence group deployed its systems along the country’s shore border and established a geofence around the UAE within 48 hours of the February 28 escalation. Prior to joining Gulf News, Nivetha worked at ITP Media, where she helped launch Finance Middle East, a new publication covering the region’s financial sector. Her role spanned reporting and editing, video production, interviews and events. Across print, digital, and video, she focuses on finding the people behind business stories and explaining why those stories matter to the audience reading or watching them.