Ship chandlers & ship supply at Port Said EGPSD

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]

The Canal runs two daily convoys: southbound departs Port Said at 03:30 and northbound departs Port Tewfik (Suez) at 04:00. A southbound vessel must be off Port Said — south of 31°28.7′N — by 23:00 to join the next day’s convoy.^[1]

—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 serving 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]

—Stores can go out by launch either while the vessel waits at the anchorage or during the canal transit itself.

—Supply works the same way at every Egyptian port. The requisition needs to reach the supplier about four hours before the vessel arrives — a separate step from the pre-arrival notice the agent files for the vessel itself.

—When a delivery runs late, customs clearance of the goods is the usual cause, not the supplier.