Port of Suez

The Port of Suez (Arabic: ميناء السويس mīnā’ as-suwīs) is a port located at the southern end of the Suez Canal in the Egyptian city of Suez. Formerly known as "Port Taufik", this name now refers to the old part of the port, which was dwarfed in size by the development of the modern Port of Suez in the late 1960s. The Port of Suez is the busiest Egyptian port by annual users and volume of cargo shipments. It features a large container ship facility with 16 cranes, a petroleum dock, and a fishing harbour protected from the port by a large breakwater. The Port of Suez is owned and operated by the Egyptian government's Ministry of Economic Development.