New Delhi → Alexandria · Alexandria, Egypt
An Egyptian importer requests an ACID for every shipment, and the number reaches the Indian exporter by email. From there to the vessel's arrival, the updates an Alexandria buyer waits for can travel on WhatsApp.
For Indian exporters of yarn, engineering goods and buffalo meat with importers in Alexandria, and Indian buyers of Egyptian goods: what to clear before the first WhatsApp shipment notice, which Arabic to write in, when Egypt's clock changes and what each +20 message costs in rupees.
See it work
A container of cotton yarn is booked for an importer in Alexandria. Tick through what an Indian exporter sets up once, so every later notice goes out on its own.
Nafeza, Egypt's trade portal, describes the importer's side: the Egyptian importer logs in, enters the foreign exporter's data and the shipment details, and requests the ACID, which the system then emails to both the importer and the exporter. That number is the thread every later message hangs on.
On InfiQ your export system can send each approved template through the developer API as the shipment moves, from booking to arrival at Alexandria, while the importer's questions land in the shared team inbox.
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India's embassy in Cairo keeps the corridor's figures. These are the ones that tell an exporter who is likely to be on the other end.
India and Egypt raised their relations to a Strategic Partnership during the Prime Minister's state visit in June 2023.[1]
Bilateral trade was US$6.5 billion in FY 2025-26. India's exports include petroleum products, engineering goods, chemicals, cotton yarn, buffalo meat and pharmaceuticals; Egypt's include petroleum products, inorganic chemicals and citrus fruits.[1]
More than 700 Indian companies are registered in Egypt, and about 70 Indian factories are active, adding over US$1 billion a year to Egyptian exports and employing about 40,000 Egyptians directly and indirectly.[2]
The embassy's list of Indian investments includes Alexandria Carbon Black, Alexandria Textile and Alex Apparel; the largest named is TCI Sanmar, at US$1.6 billion in chemicals.[2]
In the city itself, the embassy records a completed telemedicine project at Alexandria University and a bronze bust of Mahatma Gandhi at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.[1]
For each shipment, the Egyptian importer requests an ACID on the Nafeza portal, entering the foreign exporter's details, and the system emails the number to both.[4]
Egypt keeps summer time from the last Friday of April to the end of the last Thursday of October, one hour ahead of its standard UTC+2.[5]
The trades the embassy lists on both sides of the corridor, and the messages that suit them.
Cotton yarn is among India's exports to Egypt, Indian textile and apparel firms appear on the embassy's investment list, and its home page features an India–Egypt textile buyer-seller meet in Alexandria.[1],[2],[3]
Engineering goods are among the leading items on the embassy's list of India's exports to Egypt.[1],[2]
Buffalo meat is on the embassy's list of India's exports to Egypt, and importers want loading and arrival news quickly. Medicines are not traded on WhatsApp: Meta's policy bars drug sales.[1]
Citrus fruits come the other way, and an Indian buyer's desk needs inspection and loading news from its supplier.[1]
Meta approves each language version separately. An Alexandria programme usually needs two of these three.
Variables such as the ACID and the bill of lading number stay in Latin characters inside an Arabic template, so test how they sit in a right-to-left line before you submit. Replies inside the 24-hour window can be in any language an agent writes; InfiQ's own support team works in English and Hindi.
| Language | Meta code | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic (Egypt) | ar_EG | The importer's operations and accounts staff; right-to-left |
| Arabic | ar | Formal Arabic, or one version shared with Gulf buyers |
| English | en | Purchase managers, forwarders and documents such as the bill of lading |
Prices in ₹ and EGP
Egyptian numbers are billed at Egypt's line of Meta's rate card: ₹0.3167 for a shipment notice, ₹5.66 for an offer, ₹0.3167 for a login code and ₹0.3167 for a service reply, in rupees before GST. Plans start at ₹999 a month.
Snapshot rates · as of 20 Oct 2026, 00:02 UTC
Lite
₹999 / month≈ E£567.17 EGP
₹833 / month, billed yearly≈ E£472.93 EGP
Everything a growing business needs to run WhatsApp properly.
Growth
₹2,999 / month≈ E£1,702.66 EGP
₹2,499 / month, billed yearly≈ E£1,418.78 EGP
Lite, plus the API, automation and team scale serious senders need.
Enterprise
Custom volume pricing, custom SLA and dedicated infrastructure.
Per message to Alexandria · Egypt
| Category | ₹ INR | EGP |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing | ₹5.6629 | E£3.22 |
| Utility | ₹0.3167 | E£0.180 |
| Authentication | ₹0.3167 | E£0.180 |
| Service | ₹0.3167 | E£0.180 |
| Market | Marketing | Utility | Authentication | Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | E£3.09₹5.4352 | E£1.30₹2.2874 | E£1.30₹2.2874 | E£1.30₹2.2874 |
| Bangladesh | E£3.66₹6.4397 | E£0.185₹0.3254 | E£0.185₹0.3254 | E£0.185₹0.3254 |
| Brazil | E£3.12₹5.4970 | E£0.340₹0.5981 | E£0.340₹0.5981 | E£0.340₹0.5981 |
| Chile | E£4.44₹7.8162 | E£0.998₹1.7585 | E£0.998₹1.7585 | E£0.998₹1.7585 |
| Colombia | E£0.624₹1.0993 | E£0.0401₹0.0706 | E£0.0401₹0.0706 | E£0.0401₹0.0706 |
| Egypt | E£3.22₹5.6629 | E£0.180₹0.3167 | E£0.180₹0.3167 | E£0.180₹0.3167 |
| France | E£4.29₹7.5588 | E£1.50₹2.6393 | E£1.50₹2.6393 | E£1.50₹2.6393 |
| Germany | E£6.82₹12.0088 | E£2.75₹4.8386 | E£2.75₹4.8386 | E£2.75₹4.8386 |
| Hong Kong | E£3.66₹6.4397 | E£1.30₹2.2867 | E£1.30₹2.2867 | E£1.30₹2.2867 |
| Hungary | E£4.29₹7.5596 | E£1.74₹3.0700 | E£1.74₹3.0700 | E£1.74₹3.0700 |
| India | E£0.536₹0.9435 | E£0.110₹0.1941 | E£0.0796₹0.1402 | E£0.0823₹0.1450 |
| Indonesia | E£2.05₹3.6133 | E£1.25₹2.1979 | E£1.25₹2.1979 | E£1.25₹2.1979 |
| Iraq | E£1.70₹2.9992 | E£0.394₹0.6943 | E£0.394₹0.6943 | E£0.394₹0.6943 |
| Israel | E£1.76₹3.1045 | E£0.265₹0.4662 | E£0.265₹0.4662 | E£0.265₹0.4662 |
| Italy | E£3.97₹6.9847 | E£1.50₹2.6369 | E£1.50₹2.6369 | E£1.50₹2.6369 |
| Kazakhstan | E£3.01₹5.3098 | E£0.898₹1.5824 | E£0.898₹1.5824 | E£0.898₹1.5824 |
| Kuwait | E£3.96₹6.9671 | E£2.20₹3.8671 | E£2.20₹3.8671 | E£2.20₹3.8671 |
| Malaysia | E£4.29₹7.5644 | E£0.699₹1.2314 | E£0.699₹1.2314 | E£0.699₹1.2314 |
| Mexico | E£1.98₹3.4877 | E£0.424₹0.7471 | E£0.424₹0.7471 | E£0.424₹0.7471 |
| Morocco | E£2.07₹3.6425 | E£1.15₹2.0218 | E£1.15₹2.0218 | E£1.15₹2.0218 |
| Netherlands | E£7.98₹14.0494 | E£2.50₹4.3987 | E£2.50₹4.3987 | E£2.50₹4.3987 |
| Nepal | E£3.66₹6.4397 | E£0.170₹0.2990 | E£0.170₹0.2990 | E£0.170₹0.2990 |
| Nigeria | E£2.58₹4.5421 | E£0.335₹0.5898 | E£0.335₹0.5898 | E£0.335₹0.5898 |
| Oman | E£1.70₹2.9992 | E£1.23₹2.1709 | E£1.23₹2.1709 | E£1.23₹2.1709 |
| Pakistan | E£2.36₹4.1620 | E£0.749₹1.3200 | E£0.749₹1.3200 | E£0.749₹1.3200 |
| Peru | E£3.51₹6.1843 | E£1.50₹2.6392 | E£1.50₹2.6392 | E£1.50₹2.6392 |
| Poland | E£1.82₹3.2105 | E£0.608₹1.0702 | E£0.608₹1.0702 | E£0.608₹1.0702 |
| Qatar | E£1.70₹2.9992 | E£0.599₹1.0547 | E£0.599₹1.0547 | E£0.599₹1.0547 |
| Romania | E£4.29₹7.5596 | E£1.44₹2.5436 | E£1.44₹2.5436 | E£1.44₹2.5436 |
| Russia | E£4.00₹7.0520 | E£2.00₹3.5173 | E£2.00₹3.5173 | E£2.00₹3.5173 |
| Saudi Arabia | E£2.87₹5.0537 | E£0.534₹0.9401 | E£0.534₹0.9401 | E£0.534₹0.9401 |
| Singapore | E£3.66₹6.4397 | E£0.799₹1.4072 | E£0.799₹1.4072 | E£0.799₹1.4072 |
| South Africa | E£1.90₹3.3385 | E£0.475₹0.8369 | E£0.475₹0.8369 | E£0.475₹0.8369 |
| Spain | E£3.53₹6.2161 | E£0.998₹1.7578 | E£0.998₹1.7578 | E£0.998₹1.7578 |
| Sri Lanka | E£3.66₹6.4397 | E£0.0999₹0.1759 | E£0.0999₹0.1759 | E£0.0999₹0.1759 |
| Turkey | E£0.544₹0.9587 | E£0.0450₹0.0792 | E£0.0450₹0.0792 | E£0.0450₹0.0792 |
| Ukraine | E£4.29₹7.5596 | E£1.48₹2.6138 | E£1.48₹2.6138 | E£1.48₹2.6138 |
| United Arab Emirates | E£2.87₹5.0537 | E£0.784₹1.3811 | E£0.784₹1.3811 | E£0.784₹1.3811 |
| United Kingdom | E£3.17₹5.5795 | E£1.10₹1.9346 | E£1.10₹1.9346 | E£1.10₹1.9346 |
| North America | E£1.25₹2.1976 | E£0.170₹0.2989 | E£0.170₹0.2989 | E£0.170₹0.2989 |
| Rest of Africa | E£1.12₹1.9796 | E£0.200₹0.3516 | E£0.200₹0.3516 | E£0.200₹0.3516 |
| Rest of Asia Pacific | E£4.20₹7.4057 | E£0.564₹0.9938 | E£0.564₹0.9938 | E£0.564₹0.9938 |
| Rest of Central & Eastern Europe | E£4.29₹7.5596 | E£1.06₹1.8595 | E£1.06₹1.8595 | E£1.06₹1.8595 |
| Rest of Latin America | E£3.69₹6.5048 | E£0.564₹0.9934 | E£0.564₹0.9934 | E£0.564₹0.9934 |
| Rest of Middle East | E£1.96₹3.4490 | E£0.454₹0.7998 | E£0.454₹0.7998 | E£0.454₹0.7998 |
| Rest of Western Europe | E£2.96₹5.2054 | E£0.853₹1.5019 | E£0.853₹1.5019 | E£0.853₹1.5019 |
| Other | E£3.01₹5.3098 | E£0.384₹0.6769 | E£0.384₹0.6769 | E£0.384₹0.6769 |
Plan prices are monthly, in rupees, excluding GST; yearly billing is two months free. Messages are charged per delivered message on top of the plan, at the rate for the recipient’s country. Full details: InfiQ pricing. A message to the same importer's manager on an Indian +91 number is charged at the India rate, for example ₹0.19 for a utility message. Converter amounts are indicative; InfiQ invoices in rupees.
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The parts that carry a shipment from booking in India to arrival on the Mediterranean.
Your export system fills the ACID, bill of lading and vessel into the approved notice and sends it the moment the status changes.
Draft the ar_EG and en versions side by side and track both through Meta's approval before the first container sails.
Questions from the importer, the forwarder and the customs broker reach one number that sales and logistics answer together.
Egypt's per-message rate is published in rupees, so a season's shipment notices can be costed before the first send.
Nearby
Nearest first, in Egypt and the neighbouring countries.
The licence and consent conditions Egyptian law sets for electronic marketing apply across the country; the Egypt guide sets them out before you send any offer.
The ACID the importer obtained on Nafeza, the bill of lading number, the vessel and its expected arrival at Alexandria, and a contact for questions. Send it as an approved utility template, ₹0.3167 per delivered message to an Egyptian number, in Egyptian Arabic and English.
Yes, if the broker has agreed to receive WhatsApp messages from you. If the broker writes first, your team can reply in free text for 24 hours; otherwise use an approved utility template that carries the ACID as a variable, so the wording stays fixed and the number is never mistyped.
Approve each shipment template twice: Arabic (Egypt), code ar_EG, for the operations and accounts staff, and English, code en, for the purchase manager and the forwarder. Store each contact's choice when they opt in, so the right version goes to the right person.
At 13:30 IST. Until the end of 29 October Egypt is on UTC+3 and 10:00 in Alexandria is 12:30 in India; from 30 October it is on UTC+2, three and a half hours behind IST, until summer time returns on the last Friday of April 2027.
Send what a buyer asked for, in a chat the buyer started. An unrequested price list is marketing, and Egyptian law sets its own licence and consent conditions for electronic marketing; the Egypt guide covers them. Collect each buyer's opt-in at the meet, with the source recorded.
Yes. Messages to their +20 numbers are billed at Egypt's rate, ₹0.3167 for a utility template. When the packer's team writes to you first, your replies inside the 24-hour window are service messages at ₹0.3167; outside it, use an approved template such as a loading confirmation request.
InfiQ serves India-based businesses: it invoices in rupees with GST and keeps customer data in India, so the Indian parent is the natural account holder and can message Egyptian numbers at Egypt's rate. If the account must belong to the company based in Alexandria, talk to sales about whether InfiQ fits.
Facts on this page were checked against these sources on the dates shown. Page updated 2026-10-20.
Start a 7-day Lite trial, no card needed, and get your ar_EG and English shipment templates approved once Meta business verification is complete. If your business is based in Alexandria, talk to sales about whether InfiQ fits.
