Workers operate on a well-drilling rig at the site of Owainat Water Well Project in the desert of New Valley Governorate, Egypt
Egypt's engineering sector has quietly become one of the country's export success stories, and now officials want to turn that momentum into something much bigger. The government's target: push engineering exports from roughly $6.5 billion in 2025 to $13 billion by 2030, effectively doubling the sector's footprint on global markets within five years.
The plan comes out of a joint effort between the Export Development Fund and the Engineering Export Council of Egypt, whose leaders met recently to map out how the country will get there. Rather than a single headline policy, what emerged looks more like a wide-ranging overhaul of how Egypt supports the companies that make and ship engineering products abroad.
At the center of the plan is a rethink of how the state backs its exporters. Hatem El-Nawawy, who heads the Export Development Fund, said the new approach is meant to go beyond simply handing out financial incentives. Instead, the fund wants to help manufacturers get export-ready from the ground up, meeting international compliance standards, building the operational capacity to scale up production, and generally becoming more competitive once their goods hit foreign shelves.
