At El-Dougishy family is considered one of the inveterate Egyptian families in the yachting industry. That it extends to shipyard of Muhammad Ali Pasha, when Ali Hussein El-Dougishy, who is the great grandfather, contributed to building the military fleet of Muhammad Ali Pasha.
Alexandria workshops have been established since 1910. Among the most important achievements from Alexandria workshops are the construction of the Saudi Coast Guard in 1952 and the fishing fleet of Lake Nasser in 1962. It also rebuilt the rocket launchers for the Egyptian armed forces after the October 1973 war and the research boats for the Toshka project.
After that Hurghada shipyard was established in 1980 with the aim of building private and tourist yachts with a small area not exceeding 4000 meters.
And with the development of the tourism movement and the increase in the number of marine units and yachts, our thought went to establish a huge shipyard in order to accommodate the largest number of marine units and yachts. And the South Red Sea Shipyard was established in 1999 with the aim of developing the field of yachts construction and maintenance and the work of an integrated center in this area on an area of 92000 meters.