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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — For four days, containers arriving on ships have been stacking up at Egypt’s largest port, shipping- company employees and truck drivers here said.
With distribution networks barely functioning and the Internet down since Thursday, most business in Egypt has nearly ground to a halt. That could lead to a humanitarian crisis.
“A big part of the production system is government-run, and this is frozen, including many of the bakeries making the subsidized bread,” said Hoda Youssef, an economist and a lecturer at Cairo University. “Here in the short term — today, tomorrow, the coming few days — we might have a serious problem with shortages of food, water and fuel.”
