The largest floating library in the world visits the tourist port of Port Said

The “MV LOGOS HOPE” floating library coming from the port of Beirut and on board the largest floating book fair, will arrive at Port Said tourist port the day after tomorrow, Wednesday, January 4, 2023.

The ship opens its floating exhibition to thousands of visitors daily, students and reading enthusiasts, in the age groups between 13 and 65 years old in return for a symbolic amount of money to visit the ship and participate in its activities.

As for children under the age of 13 and the “different abled”, they can enter the ship free of charge, starting from 10 in the morning until 10 in the evening every day throughout the duration of the exhibition; And it begins at 3 in the evening on Friday, and the exhibition is closed on Sunday.

The 132-meter-long ship is classified as the largest floating library in the world, and the team has more than 400 volunteers from more than 60 different nationalities and is owned by the German charitable organization “Good Books for All.” The floating library contains more than 50,000 titles.

With its cultural wealth, it aims to spread culture all over the world. It also displays in the reception area a short film chronicling the ship’s visits to the most important ports of the world and interactive presentations about the modern ship to introduce the people to it.

The ship visited more than 480 ports in more than 150 countries and received more than 49 million visitors on board in 13 years, and it still raises a clear motto of “sharing knowledge, providing help and hope” in every port it visits.

The visit of the floating library “MV LOGOS HOPE” is the second after a hiatus of more than 12 years.

The ship is scheduled to dock at Port Said Tourist Port on January 4 and continue for 20 days; To leave on the 23rd of the same month, before resuming its journey to Aqaba port in Jordan.

And the Suez Canal Economic Zone announced that it had started special preparations a few days ago to receive this cultural event and it had also taken all necessary measures with all concerned authorities and raised the maximum level of readiness in the port and its surrounding places amid an intense security presence to secure the ship and facilitate the disembarkation of 350 passengers for fast tourist trips to Cairo.

This reflects the economic zone’s ability to accommodate cruise ships of all sizes and types, secure them, and provide them with the required services which helps attract more cruise ships to Egyptian ports.