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Egypt has added three infrastructure projects to its public-private partnership (PPP) pipeline, including an industrial wastewater treatment plant in Port Said and a large-scale desalination plant in Suez.

The Higher Committee for Public-Private Partnership, chaired by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, approved the projects on 25 October and authorised preparations for their tendering.

The industrial wastewater treatment plant will serve the El-Raswa Industrial Zone in southern Port Said, with a first-phase capacity of 35,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d). The Suez desalination plant will have a capacity of 1 million cm/d and will be implemented in two phases.

The third project covers the right to operate the Capital Gardens transformer substation, its connecting lines and associated electricity networks under a PPP arrangement.

The committee must approve each project separately before its tender can be launched, in accordance with Egypt’s PPP law.

The committee also approved the tendering of four industrial wastewater treatment plants in Alexandria, Giza, Beheira and Port Said. The facilities will serve the Amreya, Abu Rawash, Wadi El-Natrun and El-Raswa industrial zones, with capacities of 15,000-35,000 cm/d.

Two further desalination projects were approved for tendering. These are a 900,000-cm/d plant in Port Said and a 1 million-cm/d plant in Suez.

The Port Said plant is expected to serve the governorate and parts of Ismailia. The Suez plant will serve Suez, the Suez Canal Economic Zone and surrounding areas, with its second phase expected to supply the New Capital and nearby facilities.

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