Suez Shipyard has a human resources and labor power of over 1700 workers and engineers. The shipyard works on ship repair, ship building, as well as manufacturing dredging equipment, pipe laying and Bollard pull testing. It is strategically located on the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, in the Northern tip of

Gulf of Suez The Gulf of Suez ( ar, خليج السويس, khalīǧ as-suwais; formerly , ', "Sea of Calm") is a gulf at the northern end of the Red Sea, to the west of the Sinai Peninsula. Situated to the east of the Sinai Peninsula is the smaller Gulf o ...

. Its unique location gives the Suez Shipyard great importance in ship repair market and it offers a wide range of services to international customers. Suez shipyard is one of 7 companies affiliated to Suez Canal authority, this gives Suez shipyard a great power and ability to carry out any process according to international standards by aid and cooperation with the Suez canal authority and other sisters company of Suez shipyard which having different various activities.

History

Suez shipyard has been established by the Khedive Said in 1854, who began to build the dry dock or graven dock when an agreement has been signed between the governor of Egypt

Prince Said Mohamed Sa'id Pasha ( ar, محمد سعيد باشا, tr, Mehmed Said Paşa, March 17, 1822 – January 17, 1863) was the Wāli of Egypt Eyalet, Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Sudan from 1854 until 1863, officially owing fealty to the Ottoman S ...

and the French company to construct a graven dock for ship repair and shipbuilding. The Shipyard was created in October 1866 to serve the ships of the Egyptian fleet and reconstruction and reform, where it was the nearest dock to

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, India and served multiple ships in the Royal British Navy, and was known as the Khedivial shipyard.

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