Safaga

We don't have a list, really, a detailed list of the passengers, but we know the number, about 1,400, heading from the Port of Dubah to Safaga, which is on the Red Sea on the Egyptian side.

CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2006 2006

MOHAMED LOUTFY MANSOUR, EGYPTIAN TRANSPORT MINISTER: Well, the latest that I have here -- I just got into Safaga, which is the port that the vessel was supposed to be docking in.

CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2006 2006

We passed through the towns of Safaga, Edfu, Luxor and eventually Aswan, covering 600 miles over eight days.

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We passed through the towns of Safaga, Edfu, Luxor and eventually Aswan, covering 600 miles over eight days.

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During the past month, the controversy over whether some imported Russian wheat met Egyptian specifications caused greater scrutiny of Russian wheat imports and provoked complaints from Russia's government, as some shipments were held up by Egyptian authorities at the Red Sea port of Safaga.

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RIAS has had a shipment of wheat -- the Sea Bird -- held for three months at the Red Sea port of Safaga as a result of a payment dispute between GASC and Egyptian Traders Co. for a previous shipment.

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CLANCY: The ferry was traveling the 120 miles or 180 kilometers or so from the Saudi Arabian port of Dubah to Egypt's southern port of Safaga when radar contact was lost.

CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2006 2006

The port of Safaga, where the ferry was supposed to dock, has become a gathering place for grieving relatives anxious to find out if their loved ones survived.

CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2006 2006

It was going from a port of Dubah, not Dubai, in the western Saudi Arabian coast, to Safaga, a major Egyptian port on the Red Sea.

CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2006 2006

In 1991, though, 464 people died when a ferry hit a coral reef also near Safaga.

CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2006 2006