Ports & Logistics · Egypt

New Mediterranean hub port launches on SAP RISE + AWS.

State-of-the-art container terminal in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: the Port of Damietta reimagined.

Website availability: 99.99%; Website availability
SAP S/4HANA private cloud: RISE; SAP S/4HANA private cloud
DNS on AWS: Route53; DNS on AWS
Load-balanced routing: NLB; Load-balanced routing

About Damietta Alliance

Damietta Alliance

Ports & Logistics · Egypt

The Port of Damietta is one of the main ports in Egypt, close to the River Nile and with minimal deviation from major shipping routes and the Suez Canal.

Damietta Alliance Container Terminals is a consortium of Hapag-Lloyd AG (Germany, anchor customer), EUROGATE Group (Germany) and Contship Italia (Italy), starting operations of a state-of-the-art container terminal in early 2025.

The terminal handles the latest generation of container vessels: ship-to-shore gantry cranes with 25 rows across deck, deep-water berths at −18m CD, high-stacking yard equipment and efficient IT systems make it a new hub in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Executive summary

A greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation for a just-established Egyptian entity. As SAP + AWS partner, Phoenix worked for months to help the customer evaluate and choose SAP S/4HANA on RISE + AWS.

Once decided, Phoenix implemented SAP RISE on AWS and connected all customer sites: building the AWS VPC, connecting to the RISE tenant, and hosting the customer website with high availability.

Before · Challenges & opportunities

What the customer needed to solve.

01 Highly-scalable and highly-available public website.
02 Backup solution that connects to SAP RISE.
03 Automate business processes to increase efficiency and lower costs.
04 Optimize the database and enhance performance.
05 Enhance security across the environment.

How Phoenix delivered

The approach.

01 Provision an AWS customer VPC focused on cost optimization, right-sizing and network security.
02 Select the m6i EC2 instance family for the SAP Router (SAP-certified for general purpose).
03 Provision a Network Load Balancer (NLB) as the internet-facing endpoint for the SAP Router.
04 Connect to the SAP RISE AWS VPC through VPC peering for availability and scalability, routing traffic via the routing table.
05 Transfer the domain to Route53 in the customer account.
06 Host the customer website on AWS Lightsail and secure it with an SSL certificate.

After · Value-driven results

What changed for the business.

Measured outcomes, reported by the customer after go-live.

99.99% highly-available website.
Enhanced business efficiency, visibility and productivity, automating reporting and compliance.
Reduced maintenance and total cost of ownership.
Ready for the future with scalable and flexible technology.
Enhanced DNS performance leveraging Route53 features.
Improved SAP RISE connection using SAP Router.