Italy is studying the establishment of three logistics areas in the governorates of Beni Suef and Qena and the Red Sea for the conservation and store the grain, vegetables and fruits and the mobilization of sugar to reduce the wasteful ones and reduce transportation costs at a value of $ 28 million.

now 10 horizontal silos are established to store wheat with a capacity of about half a million tons per year with investments of $ 17 million in Hassania and San   El Haggar in Sharqia governorate , Kom Abu Radi in Beni Suef, Khanka Qalyoubia , Damietta and that comes within exchanging debts program between Egypt and Italy which valued at $ 45 million.

This was during a meeting of Khaled Hanafi, Minister of Supply and internal trade with Guido Benevento Italian counselor of exchanging debts program and Dr. Ismail Faramawy, Italian expert of Agency office in Cairo.

The minister stressed that the proposed logistics area set up in Qena will be allcated sugar packaging, because there are many sugar factories in this region will be held on an area of 20 thousand square meters that may be close to or inside the sugar factories.

He added that another logistical area at Safaga in Red Sea Governorate will be established close to Safaga port and will be out for packaging vegetables and fruits in partnership with the companies of Kaha and Edfina, as well as establishing a production line for frozen vegetables in order to provide for domestic consumption and export to the Gulf countries. In addition to that the third area of logistics for the storage of grain will be established in the region of Beni Suef at Kom Abu Radi to be close to the railway line.