Jade, that value is perceived by the town authorities but not by actual businesses. If there was a viable need for a shipping hub why wouldn't amazon or someone else just plop down a warehouse there and start operating. Its probably because there are other problems, local corruption, location not as good as local authorities want you to believe, existing port already located elsewhere etc. Towns are formed because there is a need for X and the town people pool resources and provide X. Not the other way around where the town does nothing, hopes somebody gives them X and also hopes somebody needs X which is where Cairo is at. Why cant Cairo take a loan to build their shipping hub? If the hub has a business case I'm sure banks or state/federal gvt would give it to them. More likely the case for this hub sucks, its not viable without a massive government giveaway and Cairo wont even be able to afford to do basic maintenance.