Red Sea Governorate Draws Up New Rules for Food Trucks Across Its Cities

The Red Sea Governorate is putting new rules in place for food trucks in its cities, with the governor reviewing the controls for the scheme at a meeting reported by Arabic outlets.

Ahram Gate reported that the governorate has set new regulations to organise food carts. Sada El-Balad said the governor discussed the controls with the stated aim of supporting young people and bringing order to the sector. The National Media Authority also covered the meeting, describing it as a review of the rules for implementing the food-cart project across the governorate's cities.

Mobile food carts are a familiar sight in Hurghada, Safaga and the coast's other towns, particularly along the seafront and around residential districts in the evenings. They are one of the cheapest ways into business for young people who cannot afford a shop lease — which is why the governorate frames the scheme as youth support rather than only as enforcement.

Bringing carts inside a licensing system also brings them within reach of the machinery that already governs fixed premises: health inspection, municipal fees and defined pitches. The governorate has run repeated campaigns against unlicensed street occupation in Hurghada and seized expired food stock in market inspections, both covered on this site.

What the reports do not give is the substance of the rules themselves. There is no licence fee, no list of permitted locations, no vehicle or hygiene standard, no start date, and no figure for how many carts operate in the governorate today.

For residents and visitors, the practical questions are where carts will be allowed to park and whether what they sell will be inspected. Neither has been answered publicly so far.