At critical moment where everything seems to give the worst scenarios, there is a place that remains oblivious to these realities, it is Damietta and, despite widespread financial problems, has zero percent unemployment, a site in which exports doubled in five years.

This occurs while the world is suffering the consequences of the global economic crisis, in which one of the cities of Egypt circumvents the storm.

Damietta, is located on the Mediterranean coast, yes a town that boasts not have any degree of unemployment among its inhabitants.

On this site, dominated by industry furniture factories. This was announced through a video released by the BBC World in which you share a testimony of

the director of sales at one company, Hani El Hayat, who explains that people focus on work, and consequently only engage to rest once a week.

For his part, former Egyptian ambassador to the United States, Abdel Raouf El Ridi, also explained that in Damietta is a popular saying that the hand is not working is not pure and good, therefore, young people are Bred them are children who work habits and dedication as a sign of dignity.

This city on the Nile River delta has the benefit of the government eliminated tariffs in the port. According to local officials say, exports have doubled in five years and there is no manpower available for the unemployment rate is zero there.
In Damietta, has a population of 203,187 inhabitants. Besides the furniture trade, Damietta has a large natural gas plant, which has a capacity of five million tonnes set aside.

This facility is shared by Segas, a Spanish company linked to Union Fenosa Gas, the Italian company ENI and the Egyptian companies EGAS and EGPC . In 2008, construction began on the second train, which expanded into an additional five million tonnes of LNG per year.

In ancient times was known as Tamiat, and by that time had an important port but declined in the Hellenistic period after the construction of the port of Alexandria.

Today, with a channel that communicates with the river Nile, has become again a major port of Egypt.