The port of Damietta is about 8.5 km to
the west of Damietta branch of River Nile in the Mediterranean sea to the west of Ras El
Bar, It is at the distance of 70 km to the west of port Said Port. The construction cover
an area of 25 km.
Approach area :
Canal entrance : The canal is 11.3 km long and 300 m wide , this gradually
decreases until it reaches 250 m at water break and 15 m depth. The canal is surrounded by
18 buoys which are lit at night, odd numbers on the right and even numbers on the left,
There is an external waiting area.
Water Break : The western
waterbreak is 1640 m long, 140 m are in land and 1500 m in the sea. The Eastern waterbreak
is 738 long, 200 in land and 538 m in the sea. The waterbreaks are protected from the
external side the industrial acrid bocks and they are topped by a cement layer.
Barge channel : It consists
of two ports one is 1350 m that links the barges dock to the sea and other is 3750 m that
links to the dock to the Nile branch.
The area of the barge dock is 250 x 250 m and it is equipped with a berth of 250 m long
where water depth is 5 m deep.
Diameter of the rotation dock is 500 m and its depth is 14.5 m in front of the containers
broth and 12 m in front the general cargo berths
Port dimension : An
imaginary line links between the two ends of the external eastern and western break waters
