It is owned and operated by the Ministry of Transport's General Authority of Red Sea Ports,[1] and is home to the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) shipyards.

[2] Originally named Port Tewfik (or Port Tawfiq) after the then ruler Khedive Tewfik, the port was built in 1867 by the Suez Canal Company, and was part of its eponymous company town then at the outskirts of the town of Suez.

It included a branch for the company and segregated housing for European management and Egyptian workers designed and built by French architects and contractors.

[4] Enclosed in breakwaters is the artificial El Mira-El Gedda bay.

The waters outside the boundaries of Ibrahim Dock, Petroleum Dock, Ataka Port, Adabiya Port and New Petroleum berth are within the Suez Canal jurisdiction.