Suez Canal Authority

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA ) is the owner, manager and operator of the Suez Canal. It was founded by the nationalization law, which was signed on 26 July 1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was awarded the expropriated the assets of Sueskanalgesellschaft and transferred to the SCA.

It is an independent legal entity. In German terminology one would describe as an institution of the ( Egyptian ) public law.

My office is located in Ismailia.

Its Board of Directors (Board of Directors ) consists of 13 people, led by the Chairman & Managing Director. Since August 12, 2012 this is Admiral Mohab Mameesh.

The SCA is the owner of the Suez Canal and all of its land, buildings and farm equipment.

The SCA shall adopt the traffic rules and sets the fees for the channel utilization and raises these charges. The charges are calculated in SDRs and stated in U.S. dollars, euros, etc.. In 2008, she took 5,381 million U.S. dollars for the passage of a total of 21,415 ships.

She is responsible for operating, ensuring the safety of traffic and the entertainment of the Suez Canal and all related tasks.

According to the nationalization law is indeed independent, but bound by the Convention of Constantinople Opel 29 October 1888 the right to set channel use granted to vessels of all nations on the same conditions, and this also applies to ships of war and in times of war for ships of warring parties.

The SCA is responsible for the radar and computer-based traffic management, the 14 pilot stations and the pilot. It operates with a simulator for the education and training of pilots since 1996, the Maritime Training and Simulation Center.

It operates about 60 vessels (including tugs, dredgers, floating cranes and various smaller ships. )

According to the information on the website of the SCA she is also responsible for

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