The World Bank announced Friday it is lending Egypt $45 million to help it rehabilitate and modernize its main port, Alexandria. The port of Alexandria, the World Bank said, handled about 90% of Egypt’s total overseas port traffic in 1975. The traffic consists of about 2700 cargo ships a year.
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