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Egypt

240 assets on the register, 82 of them located. The hundred most strategic average 17.24 of 25, and Aswan High Dam ranks first.

Assets
240of 244 records
Top-100 mean
17.24of 25
Scoring a full 25
2
Leading group
19%Transport

Where the top 100 are61 located

A larger circle is a higher score. A fainter one marks the place an asset is in, or a point standing for a network, not the asset's own site.

The shape of the register

How the nation's strategic weight and its assets are spread across the ten capability groups, and how its scores are distributed.

Signature

Each capability group's share of the score carried by the nation's 200 highest-scoring assets.

Transport

Resource

Social

Communications & Digital

Energy

Space, Aerospace & Defence

Agriculture & Food

Financial

Advanced Manufacturing

Water, Sanitation & Waste

17.2%

13.0%

9.9%

9.4%

9.1%

8.7%

8.4%

8.4%

8.3%

7.6%

Assets by capability group

Every discrete asset on the register, and how many of each group reach the national top 100.

Score distribution

The number of assets at each score from 0 to 25.

Source National Infrastructure Index, Strategic Infrastructure schema v1.1. An asset's score is the sum of five dimensions, each judged from 0 to 5; individual scores are approximate.

Not yet or no longer operating: 5 under construction, 2 inactive, 2 planned, 1 decommissioned.

National top 100

Every asset competes on its score, with no quota by sector. The five dimensions are each judged from 0 to 5.

#AssetFlowReachCentralitySubstitutabilityThroughputScoreConfidence
1Aswan High DamWater, Sanitation & Waste · Dams, Reservoirs & Flood Defence · Aswan5555525high
2Suez CanalTransport · Seaports & Terminals · Suez Canal Zone, Ismailia to Port Said5555525high
3Nile Valley and Delta irrigation systemAgriculture & Food · Irrigation & Agricultural Water · Nile Valley and Delta5455423medium
4Telecom Egypt trans-Egypt terrestrial crossing routesCommunications & Digital · Subsea Cables & International Gateways · Mediterranean landings to Red Sea landings alongsid…5554423high
5Central Bank of EgyptFinancial · Currency & Reserves · Cairo and New Administrative Capital5454422high
6Alexandria and El Dekheila port complexTransport · Seaports & Terminals · Alexandria5454422high
7GASCO national gas transmission networkResource · Storage, Transport & Export · nationwide from Cairo5454422high
8Egyptian national transmission grid and control centreEnergy · Transmission & Distribution · Nationwide5454422medium
9Cairo International AirportTransport · Air Infrastructure · Heliopolis, Cairo4554422high
10National Energy Control CentreEnergy · System Control & Dispatch · Cairo4554422medium
11SUMED pipeline (Suez-Mediterranean)Resource · Storage, Transport & Export · Ain Sukhna to Sidi Kerir5544422high
12Zohr gas field and Port Said processing plantResource · Oil & Gas Extraction · Offshore Port Said5444421high
13Abu Talat cable landing stationCommunications & Digital · Subsea Cables & International Gateways · Alexandria and Red Sea coast4544421high
14Port Said East (SCCT) container terminalTransport · Seaports & Terminals · Port Said East, Suez Canal Zone4544421high
15Zafarana cable landing stationCommunications & Digital · Subsea Cables & International Gateways · Alexandria and Red Sea coast4544421high
16Ramses Telephone ExchangeCommunications & Digital · Core & Backbone Networks · Ramses Street, downtown Cairo4454320high
17Cairo MetroTransport · Rail Infrastructure · Greater Cairo4345420high
18Beni Suef combined cycle power plantEnergy · Thermal Generation · Beni Suef4444420high
19Burullus combined cycle power plantEnergy · Thermal Generation · Burullus, Kafr El Sheikh4444420high
20Strategic grain silos network and Damietta grain terminalAgriculture & Food · Storage, Cold Chain & Markets · Nationwide and Damietta4444420medium
21Middle East Oil Refinery (MIDOR), AlexandriaResource · Processing & Refining · Amreya, Alexandria4444319high
22Egyptian National Railways Cairo-Alexandria and Cairo-Aswan main linesTransport · Rail Infrastructure · Nile Valley and Delta4444319medium
23Aswan Low Dam and Esna, Naga Hammadi and Assiut barragesWater, Sanitation & Waste · Dams, Reservoirs & Flood Defence · Upper Egypt4444319medium
24Cairo Area Control CentreTransport · Air Navigation & Traffic Management · Cairo4544219high
25Damietta LNG plantResource · Storage, Transport & Export · Damietta3544319high
25 of 100 assets