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Port Said is the northern gate of the Suez Canal — every transiting vessel passes it, and most need something: provisions and stores while waiting for the convoy, an agent, bunkers, waste landing. Post the requirement here and verified suppliers at this port answer with sealed bids.
31°16′N · 32°18′E · UN/LOCODE EGPSD
Port guide
Reviewed 2026-08-20 · sources below — operational details change; verify before you sail on them
Port Said sits on the Mediterranean at the northern terminus of the Suez Canal. East Port Said port lies directly alongside the Canal at 31°13′N 032°21′E, built as a transshipment hub on the world’s main east–west trade lane.[5]
—East Port Said: a basin 550 m wide and about 7 km long, dredged to 18.5 m (quay walls designed for up to 21 m), with dedicated container terminals (3,000 m of berth), a multi-purpose terminal (900 m), a Ro-Ro terminal (600 m) and a grain terminal (500 m), plus three attached logistics zones.[5]
—The Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT), operated by APM Terminals, is one of the Mediterranean’s major transshipment hubs; a USD 500m expansion completed in November 2025 lifted capacity to 7 million TEU a year, and the World Bank/S&P CPPI 2024 ranked Port Said the world’s third most efficient container port.[7]
—Port Said West is the historic harbour, governed by the Port Said Port Authority under the Ministry of Transport.[5]
What a vessel arranges at Port Said
Read off the live directory · distances are great-circle, not sailing routes
28 verified ship chandlers have activated ship supply at Port Said. Post the requirement — provisions, bonded stores and deck, engine and cabin stores, each line an IMPA-coded catalogue item or a specified manual item with its unit — with the vessel's ETA and payment terms, and each of them prices it sealed. You compare the bids line by line; they never see the vessel's name until you award.
Supplier coverage at this port
33 verified suppliers activated · 3 of 4 port lines covered
Nearest ports
Great-circle distance from Port Said (EGPSD) through the UN/LOCODE directory — straight-line, not a sailing route.
—Arriving vessels contact the harbour office 15 miles before the Fairway Buoy and anchor where the Suez Canal Port office allocates; the deep-draught Northern Anchorage Zone One takes draughts over 42 ft up to 66 ft.[2]
—Pilotage is compulsory for every vessel entering or leaving the Canal; deep-draught vessels are piloted in from the Northern Anchorage via the East Approach Channel.[2]
—The anchorages are tightly SCA-controlled: shifting berth or anchorage without explicit authorisation carries an additional USD 10,000 charge under the Rules of Navigation.[2]
—The waiting anchorages are a working supply stop: bunkering at the Suez Canal waiting anchorages and at East and West Port Said is a licensed activity (supplier statement — verify terms with your agent).[9]
—An agent — mandatory. The SCA’s Rules of Navigation require every vessel transiting the Canal or staying at Port Said harbour to have a shipping agent; the SCA has no foreign representatives.[2]
—48-hour pre-arrival notice through that agent to the SCA: identity, Suez Canal tonnages, deadweight, draught, beam, transit or harbour-stay intention, ETA, and IMDG dangerous-cargo details.[2]
—Provisions, stores and fresh water while waiting for the convoy — the anchorage wait is the natural supply window. Post a requirement and chandlers activated at Port Said answer with sealed bids; suppliers never see the vessel’s name until award.
—Bunkers, if taken here rather than at Suez: licensed anchorage supply exists (see above) — nominate through your agent and compare offers before committing.[9]
—Canal dimensions after the 2015 expansion: 193.30 km long, 24 m deep, maximum permissible draught 66 ft.[3]
—Traffic scale: 26,434 transits in the record year 2023; 13,213 in 2024 under the Red Sea crisis; recovery reported through 2025, including the first mega-containership return in June 2025 (as of the sources’ 2025 updates).[6,8,4]
Sources
2 verified bunker or water suppliers have activated bunkering & fresh water at Port Said. Post the requirement — bunkers by grade and fresh water, in tonnes or cubic metres, normalised so the offers compare — with the vessel's ETA and payment terms, and each of them prices it sealed. You compare the bids line by line; they never see the vessel's name until you award.
No waste operator has activated Port Said yet. The nearest port where a waste operator is activated is Dumyat (Damietta) (EGDAM), 50 km away by great circle. A requirement posted here — MARPOL waste landing by category and volume, priced and documented against the call — still counts: it alerts the sourcing desk, which recruits for Port Said in the order requirements arrive, and the first waste operator to activate the port takes its requests uncontested.
3 verified port agents have activated port agency at Port Said. Post the requirement — the agency scope for the call — clearance, husbandry, crew transport, cash to master — quoted on the same defined job — with the vessel's ETA and payment terms, and each of them prices it sealed. You compare the bids line by line; they never see the vessel's name until you award.
