EGYPT will open its first shipping line with east Africa next month, sending goods from Suez to Djibouti and the Kenyan port of Mombasa, the Egyptian Businessmen’s Association said on Sunday. Six ships with total cargo capacity of 40000 tons will sail the routes monthly starting August 1, EBA general secretary Taher el-Sherif said. Another shipping line will be launched in December, linking Egyptian ports with those of Dar es-Salaam in Tanzania and the island of Mauritius, he said. The new shipping lines come under agreements reached at the May summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa).