Shipping start-up Bosta opens $5 mln sorting centre in Egypt

The centre has the largest automated shipment sorting machine, provided by Egyptian machinery manufacturer Simplex. The centre sorts 11,000 shipments per hour, 250,000 shipments per day. The firm is targeting a goal of around 80 million shipments for 2026.

This project underscores a growth in Egypt’s start-up, e-commerce, and logistics sector, as market size and population increase, due to planned incentives by the Ministerial Entrepreneurship Group, according to Minister of Planning Rania Al-Mashat, who attended the inauguration.

The group aims to enhance the capabilities of startups and the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem to achieve a sustainable economic growth of 7.5 percent by 2030 through competitiveness, as per Egypt’s economic development narrative.

Moreover, the global e-commerce market was valued at about $4.12 trillion in 2024 and is projected to grow to $6.48 trillion by 2029, while global e-commerce sales are expected to reach $8.5 trillion by 2026.

Egypt has been seeing steady e-commerce growth, particularly for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), due to customs facilitations, improvements in digital infrastructure, modernization of the customs systems and e-commerce, and expanding access to digital payment services.

Start-ups in Egypt attracted a total of $614 million in funding in 2025 from direct investments and debt financing, marking a 51 percent increase from 2024.

Meanwhile, from January to May 2025, startups secured $228 million in venture capital and debt financing, a 130 percent increase compared to the same period in 2024.

Egypt’s government is recognizing entrepreneurship as a driver of economic growth rather than a standalone sector by considering establishing a unified institutional body for entrepreneurship to serve as a single point of contact for startups, investors, and relevant ministries.