{"id":174566,"date":"2026-01-31T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2026\/01\/il-programma-egiziano-di-privatizzazione-degli-aeroporti-parte-da-hurghada\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:23:07","slug":"il-programma-egiziano-di-privatizzazione-degli-aeroporti-parte-da-hurghada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-economica\/2026\/01\/il-programma-egiziano-di-privatizzazione-degli-aeroporti-parte-da-hurghada\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Airport Privatization Program Begins in Hurghada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt will put <strong>the management of several national<\/strong> <strong>airports<\/strong> up for tender with the aim of attracting international capital and expertise, improving the quality of services, and simultaneously generating a steady flow of hard currency revenue for the State. The chosen model involves concessions based on public-private partnerships (PPPs). With a view to developing the initiative, Egypt&#8217;s Ministry of Civil Aviation is working with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the financial arm of the World Bank Group, as a strategic advisor.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy will initially focus on several smaller airports located near tourist destinations, deemed <strong>attractive assets for the market<\/strong>, both because they can count on regular and reliable traffic flows and because their small size makes them relatively easy to manage. The programme&#8217;s first pilot project concerns <strong>Hurghada International Airport<\/strong>, one of the country&#8217;s main tourist gateways. The design and construction of a third <strong>terminal<\/strong>, with an estimated capacity of between 10 and 15 million passengers per year, are planned, in addition to the management of the existing Terminals 1 and 2. Together, the two current terminals cover an area of approximately 120,000 square metres and provide a total annual capacity of over 13 million passengers (7.5 million for Terminal 1, 5.5 million for Terminal 2).<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian government plans to later extend the concession model to other domestic airports, with <strong>Sharm el-Sheikh Airport<\/strong> as the next project in the pipeline. This, too, will be subject to an international tender process, with the aim of replicating the public-private partnership model already tested with the Hurghada project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egypt will put the management of several national airports up for tender with the aim of attracting international capital and expertise, improving the quality of services, and simultaneously generating a steady flow of hard currency revenue for the State. The chosen model involves concessions based on public-private partnerships (PPPs). With a view to developing the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":174367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[3,6],"class_list":["post-174566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-economica","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174602,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174566\/revisions\/174602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}