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About Beacon
A navigation & communication systems house serving Egypt’s maritime community since 1987.
Our story
Established 1987, built on quality
Beacon Co. was established as a navigation & communication systems company in Egypt in 1987. Our quality targets aim at providing customers with high-quality service in a quick, efficient and accurate manner — with clear communication and efficient follow-up on projects to ensure their timely completion.
Our designs follow the most up-to-date international standards, produced by highly qualified design engineers, and every system we supply and install is backed by our warranty. Project quality is governed by a quality system consistent with ISO 9001, so the right experience and procedures stand behind every delivery.
The quality of our service is of the utmost importance to the continuity of our business — every member of the Beacon team is expected to maintain it, and wherever possible, improve it.
Beacon Co. was established in Egypt in 1987 to provide technical solutions for navigation and communication systems. Our quality targets aim at providing our customers with high-quality service in a quick, efficient and accurate manner.
Experience
A hand in every Egyptian navigation project since 1987
Beacon specialises in the design, supply, operation and maintenance of navigation aids, navigational guidance and communication systems. We have supplied aids to navigation to every major port authority in Egypt — the Egyptian Authority for Maritime Safety, the ports of Alexandria and the Red Sea, and the Suez Canal Authority among them.
Since 1987 the company has taken part in the region’s marine-safety projects — as supplier, installer or maintenance contractor — across the Gulf of Suez, the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Straits of Tiran and the approaches to Egypt’s ports, building deep bench of engineers, technicians and specialists along the way.
We also self-deliver the complementary works a project needs: civil works, steel towers and metal structures, and the supply and installation of buoys, lighthouses, solar systems, lanterns, batteries, voltage regulators and electronic monitoring equipment.
Quality is governed by an ISO 9001-consistent system for both design and implementation, and the company is registered with the Egyptian Federation for Construction & Building Contractors in the disciplines below.
Company activities
What we deliver
Registered disciplines
Egyptian Federation for Construction & Building Contractors
Selected track record
Four decades, documented
A few of the projects Beacon has delivered and maintained — from the first Gulf of Suez contracts to the New Suez Canal.
- 1985–1989 Installation, maintenance and repair of all lighthouses and main beacons in the Gulf of Suez (via Pharos Marine and Anderson).
- 1987–2007 Technical supervision, maintenance and repair of the Mediterranean sites — Damietta, Shaqiq, Borollos, Rasheed and Port Said.
- 1989–2007 Four consecutive contracts maintaining navigation aids across the Gulf of Suez and Red Sea, and the Serapeum navigation warning station.
- 1996–2008 Aids-to-navigation development at the port of Hurghada — equipment, towers, civil works and full maintenance.
- 1997–2012 Egypt’s national marine DGPS network — six coastal stations serving the Red Sea and Mediterranean, delivered and maintained across two phases.
- 2000–2015 Design and delivery of the aids to navigation for the new Ain Sokhna port, with maintenance extended for the Red Sea Ports Authority.
- 2015–2023 Supply of more than 800 marine lanterns to the Suez Canal Authority for the New Suez Canal across successive contracts (2015, 2019, 2023).
- 2024 Design and delivery of a four-station DGPS network along the Nile from Cairo to Aswan for the River Transport Authority (RTA), with Frequentis as prime contractor.
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Track record, activities and authorities we serve — in Arabic.