Alexandria Shipyard is a shipyard located in the Alexandria Port in the northern coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt. A contract for the construction Alexandria shipyard and the supply of its shop’s equipment was signed in 1962 with the government of the Soviet Union. The yard foundation was laid beside the site of Alexandria Port old graving dock. In 1963 the shipyard apprentice training center was opened to train and qualify the shipbuilding and ship repair personnel. In 1964 the shipyard mechanical slipway with carriage lifting capacity of 600 Tons was opened for service. In 1965 a new graving dock built by a German contractor with a capacity of 85,000 dwt went into service. In 1968 the rest of the shipyard area was reclaimed from the sea and the building of two semi submerged inclined berths were completed. Each can be used for building of vessels to 35,000 dwt. In 1969 after the shipyard has been practically completed, construction of large merchant ships started. In 1971 the first dry cargo vessel "ALEXANDRIA CLASS" M/V Alexandria was launched and towed to the yard outfitting quay for fitting out and delivery. Since then the yard has built and delivered 35 vessels of different types and sizes. By 1976, Russian involvement in the shipyard was curtailed. More information...
According to PR-model, alexyard.com.eg is ranked 725,371st in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 24,676th in Arabic Wikipedia.
The website is placed before pilgrimmediagroup.com and after shapelize.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
