<p data-path-to-node="5" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;"><b data-path-to-node="5" data-index-in-node="0" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;">AIN SOKHNA / DUBAI</b> — Addressing bottleneck pressures at the southern maritime entrance to the Suez Canal, DP World Sokhna, in operational collaboration with the Egyptian Customs Authority and the General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone), has officially commissioned a suite of high-energy, drive-through container X-ray scanning portals integrated with automated optical character recognition (OCR) systems.</p><p data-path-to-node="6" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;">The non-intrusive inspection (NII) infrastructure replaces manual stripping and destuffing inspections at terminal gates. Designed to maintain continuous cargo flow despite strict border security regimes, the system accelerates terminal gate processing while providing customs authorities with high-penetration imaging capabilities across high-volume containerized import and export corridors.</p><h4 data-path-to-node="8" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;"><b>Engineering &amp; Inspection Architecture</b></h4><p data-path-to-node="9" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;">The newly integrated gantry architecture operates along dedicated multi-lane gate corridors, allowing heavy container haulage trucks to clear mandatory scans without requiring drivers to decouple their trailers:</p><ul data-path-to-node="10" style="padding-inline-start: 32px; font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;"><li style="line-height: 1.15 !important;"><p data-path-to-node="10,0,0" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;"><b data-path-to-node="10,0,0" data-index-in-node="0" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;">Drive-Through High-Energy Linear Accelerators:</b> The gantries deploy dual-energy X-ray accelerators capable of penetrating up to <b data-path-to-node="10,0,0" data-index-in-node="127" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;">300 mm of solid steel</b>, revealing concealed cavities, undeclared contraband, or misdeclared hazardous materials inside tightly packed 20-foot and 40-foot containers.</p></li><li style="line-height: 1.15 !important;"><p data-path-to-node="10,1,0" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;"><b data-path-to-node="10,1,0" data-index-in-node="0" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;">Continuous In-Motion Scanning:</b> Vehicles pass through the scanning portal at steady speeds between <b data-path-to-node="10,1,0" data-index-in-node="98" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;">10 km/h and 15 km/h</b>. The system automatically deactivates beam emission until the driver's cab passes the portal threshold, adhering to strict radiological safety standards for operators.</p></li><li style="line-height: 1.15 !important;"><p data-path-to-node="10,2,0" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;"><b data-path-to-node="10,2,0" data-index-in-node="0" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;">AI-Assisted Material Discrimination:</b> The scanning software applies advanced algorithmic material classification, color-coding organic substances, inorganic industrial products, and heavy metals. An automated anomaly-detection engine flags density mismatches between the scanned cargo image and the carrier's digital customs manifest.</p></li></ul><h4 data-path-to-node="12" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><b>Alleviating Congestion Along the Red Sea Corridor</b></span></h4><p data-path-to-node="16" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;">Ain Sokhna plays a pivotal logistical role as Egypt's primary deepwater gateway on the Red Sea, handling critical machinery imports for Cairo's industrial perimeter, agricultural chemicals, and transit transshipment flows connecting East Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Arabian Gulf.</p><p data-path-to-node="17" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;">Due to prolonged regional routing diversions around the Cape of Good Hope, container lines have increasingly utilized Sokhna as a consolidation and feeder relay point, concentrating large volumes of import containers in the terminal yard.</p><p data-path-to-node="18" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;">By eliminating the manual inspection logjam, the automated scanning portals prevent container yard stacking densities from breaching critical thresholds. Import boxes clearing customs are loaded directly onto intermodal rail flatcars bound for the 6th of October Dry Port and 10th of Ramadan logistics parks, or released onto the Cairo-Sokhna highway corridor within hours of vessel discharge.</p><h4 data-path-to-node="20" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;"><b>Executive Leadership &amp; Customs Modernization</b></h4><p data-path-to-node="21" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;">Speaking at the operational commissioning at the Ain Sokhna terminal, DP World leadership highlighted the technology's commercial importance:</p><blockquote data-path-to-node="22" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;"><p data-path-to-node="22,0" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;"><i data-path-to-node="22,0" data-index-in-node="0" style="line-height: 1.15 !important;">"Modern port efficiency cannot depend solely on crane moves at the berth; the landside gate is where supply chain velocity is truly won or lost. By integrating high-speed non-intrusive inspection gantries directly into Sokhna's digital gate operating system, we are protecting national trade security while driving container dwell times down to world-class baselines. This technology positions Sokhna as the premier, frictionless logistics gateway servicing Egypt and the broader Red Sea."</i></p></blockquote><p data-path-to-node="23" style="font-family: &quot;Google Sans Text&quot;, sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important;">Egyptian customs officials confirmed that the Sokhna deployment serves as the benchmark for upcoming digital inspection modernization programs across Mediterranean ports, including Alexandria and Port Said, standardizing cargo inspection protocols across all national trade gateways.</p>