At approximately 40,000 square meters, about 5,000 workers in Ezbet El Burj, Damietta Governorate, north of Egypt, are competing to manufacture the latest ships and yachts, to be used locally and also exported internationally.
The city of Ezbet al-Burj on the Mediterranean coast accounts for about two-thirds of the Egyptian fishing fleet, as most of the people work in fishing and shipbuilding, especially as the process of industrialization is still manual in the historic city that dug its place in the Egyptian economy.
One boat needs about 20 tons of wood, and it is between 12 and 55 meters long. It is priced between 160,000 pounds (9,000 dollars) and about 1 million pounds (56,000 dollars), according to the size and wood used in its manufacture.
The locals pride themselves on their industry, which they said they inherited from their forefathers, and teach their children the secrets of the profession that their Mediterranean city, which exports its products to many Arab and Western countries, maintains and is famous for.
However, they complain about the rise in the prices of raw materials and imported timber since the exchange rate was released in November 2016. This was reflected in the shipbuilding industry in Al-Azab.
And then monitor the photographer of the stages of shipbuilding in Ezbet El Borg north of Egypt: