Suez Shipyard Company
Suez shipyard has been established since about 142 years ago when an agreement has been signed between the governor of Egypt " Prince Saeed " and French company on April 1862 to construct a graven dock for ship repair and shipbuilding with principal dimension 140 m length and 25 m width.
The execution of project started on Aug. 1882 by manual means. all works finished October 1866. on 1963 becomes on of an affiliated companies of Suez Canal Authority .
The location of Suez Shipyard in the south entrance of Suez Canal, this unique location gives the Suez Shipyard grate importance in ship repair market.
Principal dimension and facilities:
- Length overall: 302.00 m
- Length of the pontoon: 270.00 m
- Breadth overall: 71.08 m
- Breadth between the rails of the gantry crane: 70.50 m
- Outer breadth between the side walls on the outside: 66.50 m
- Inner width between the side walls on the inside: 56.50 m
- Clear width between the fenders: 55.00 m
- Height: 21.31 m
- Height of the pontoon on the centre line: 6.00 m
- Freeboard upper deck: 4.10 m
- Height between upper deck and tween deck: 3.20 m
- Height between safety deck and tween deck: 3.50 m