Suez Canal Zone Desalination (PPP)
Seawater RO in Egypt.
In tender
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Ain Sokhna
- Coordinates
- 29.600, 32.350
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- —
- Capital cost
- US$710 m (government list, September 2026)
- Stage
- In tender
- Owner or client
- Sovereign Fund of Egypt
- Developer
- —
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- PPP
- Award or start year
- 2027
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-10-07.
History
- 2026-09
Plant at final tendering, valued at US$710 million in a government list
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- NewsBase, Egypt to tender nearly US$1 billion in desalination projects in January 2026 (Central PPP Unit, Ministry of Finance). newsbase.com.
- Capacity and cost of the SCZone plant not disclosed in that source.
- Enterprise, FinMin prepares USD 3 bn worth of projects across desalination, wastewater treatment, and electricity, 22 September 2026. enterpriseam.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Citing Al Borsa and a government document: the desalination plant in the Suez Canal Economic Zone at Ain Sokhna, USD 710 million, has reached final tendering.