Years ago, transit time was almost 25 to 27 days from Port Said East in Egypt to Mombasa in East Africa via major shipping lines like Maersk, Safmarine: which later on emerged in Maersk, in addition to CMA CGM. This transit time was reduced later on to some 15 to 18 days, and I think,, just thinking, this was possible after the construction of the new suez canal which helped to reduce the waiting time in Suez Canal by average of 10 hours. This helped the vessel reaching salalah to connect with the earliest vessel sailing to East Africa. taking into considerations the current situation, the average transit time from Alexandria Egypt to Mombasa ( which I consider it the Eastern Gate of Africa ) totals some 30-32 days. Although this duration is still good for many fresh products, however, returning to the older transit time of 15-18 days transit which help to a large extent to maintain the freshness of the Egyptian fresh products delivered to East Africa, considering that 15 or 18 days transit is far better than 30 days. Therefore, and due to the importance of Mombasa port for our products, I suggest that some sort of arrangements be initiated to link Sukhna Egypt to Salalah, via CMA as it is now, then from there shipments may connect on the regular Maersk vessels sailing from Salalah to Mombasa. If this is not possible, then CMA extend their regular voyages to Mombasa from Egypt via Salalah in Oman Important Example: CMA CGM vessel Guild sails from Sukhna on December 19, it can stop over in Salalah ( while in route to Jebel Ali ), duration then to Salalah is around 5 to 6 days, it arrives Salalah say 24 December, containers can wait then in Salalah for the first available vessel of Maersk heading to Mombasa, this is Maersk Cabo Verde v. 452 S - departing Salalah on Dec 31, and arrives in Mombasa around January 5, calculating the total transit time from Sukhna Egypt to Mombasa, will be around 16 days, which is really good for oranges, grapes, pomegranates, etc etc. Taking into consideration is that in this example, containers stayed over in Salalah for a week ( from 24 to Dec 31, while on other occasions waiting time in Salalah could be less than a week, according to schedules of both liners, and as such transit time may be reduced further to less than 16 days from Egypt to Kenya. We used, and still, using Mombasa port for delivery not only to Kenya, but via land transport to the landlocked countries like Uganda, and from there to Rwanda, Burundi , in addition to Congo Kinshasa, etc. and from Kenya to Juba in south Sudan. Taking into consideration also that you you may also find Egyptian fresh produce in Tchad or Niger or Central Africa land transported either from Uganda or from Rwanda ( through the Intra-Regional trade between African countries.