The company underscored that the new silos will be close to the production sites in order to reduce the costs of transport and fuel. Further, the company will expand the capacity of a number of silos in Upper Egypt to become 90,000 each instead of 30,000. According to statements made by the ministry's spokesperson, Ahmed Kamal, in June 2021 and published by Al Ahram, Egypt owns 44 silos having a total capacity of 2.7 million tons. Kamal added that Egypt's capacity of wheat storage rose in general from 1.6 million tons in 2011 to 3.4 million tons. That is attributed to introducing new silos and improving the wheat storage system in Egypt reducing loss to almost zero percent, after it had been up to 10 percent.
