Egypt grows its green hydrogen pipeline
Cairo prepares to showcase groundswell of investor interest in potential to supply low-carbon bunkering fuel at Cop27 climate talks
States across the Middle East and North Africa are jostling for a share of the international investment flooding into the nascent green hydrogen sector, highlighting their ease of access to potential markets, superior climate, low population densities, well-developed energy infrastructure, and a domestic industrial base ripe for hydrogen-based decarbonisation. However, Egypt holds an unbeatable trump card in the form of control over the Suez Canal—through which more than a tenth of global trade passes—at a time when the international shipping industry and its clients are waking up to the need to decarbonise maritime transport. And Cairo is taking full advantage, signing up a plethora of inve

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