WORMS

United Shipping Agency

S.A.E.

We are pleased to introduce WORMS organization in Port Said.
WORMS proved its efficiency during the construction of the Suez Canal, thus starting a long history of first class shipping services in Egypt.

WORMS is today a leader in the field of the Suez Canal transit.

The idea of linking the Mediterranean and Red sea first occurred during the Pharaonic age.

During the French campaign of 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte thought of linking the two seas directly by means of a navigation canal, but engineers did not support the idea of believing that the Red Sea level is nine meters higher than that of the Mediterranean.

• On November 30, 1854 the French engineer Ferdinand De-lesseps managed to sign a concession with the Egyptian government to dig the Suez Canal.

• On April 25, 1859 the digging of the Canal began and continued for ten years. More than 2.4 million Egyptian workers took part, of which more than 125.000 lost their lives.

• On November 17,1869 the Suez Canal was opened for navigation.

• The Suez Canal has a strategic location. It links two oceans and two seas

• In July 1956, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal after it had been an international company for about 87 years.

• The Egyptian government has always been keen on improving and developing the performance of the Suez Canal in order to cope with the steady increase in maritime transport due to the huge capacity of tankers, giant cargo vessels and the ever increasing number of ships crossing the canal