Bulk De-icing Salt — Rock & Sea Road Salt (EN 16811-1 / ASTM D632 / BS 3247 / GOST)

Bulk de-icing salt — Egyptian rock & sea road salt, specified to the standard you tender against

De-icing salt is sodium chloride graded for winter road maintenance: a controlled sieve band so the spreader meters it evenly, a minimum NaCl content so melt capacity is predictable, and a moisture limit so the stockpile does not cake before the first frost. Egypt Globe Group supplies bulk de-icing salt from two geologically distinct sources. Siwa Oasis and Qattara Depression rock salt is crystalline halite mined at ≥ 97.00 % NaCl with naturally low calcium and magnesium, shipped at natural moisture grades of 1.0 % or 1.5 %, or kiln-dried to ≤ 0.25 %, ≤ 0.5 % or ≤ 1.0 % (winter) on request. North Sinai (El-Arish / Bardawil) and Red Sea (Ain Sokhna) sea salt is solar-evaporated at 94–97 % NaCl raw, then washed and kiln-dried to ≥ 97 % for Type 1 tenders, or shipped undried at 3–4 % moisture as EN 16811-1 Type 2 stockpile salt.

Every major regional road-salt standard is covered by a dedicated SKU: EN 16811-1 Grades A / B / C in Type 1 (kiln-dried, E535 anti-caking ≤ 80 ppm) and Type 2 (natural moisture, no additive), BS 3247:2011, ASTM D632 Grades 1 and 2 with AASHTO M-143, SS-EN 16811-1 Nordic pre-wetting-compatible salt, GOST 13830 Grades I and II, and pre-wetted NaCl / MgCl₂ brine-treated variants. Cargoes load FOB / CFR / CIF from 240 MT containerised to 65,000 MT vessel parcels. De-icing salt is the backbone of the group's export record — more than 2 million tonnes of Egyptian salt shipped since 2015 on more than 100 chartered vessels, the recent programme predominantly to EU destinations.

Winter-maintenance contracts fail on cargoes that arrive at 3 % moisture when the tender said 1 %, or at 95 % NaCl when spreader calibration assumed 97 %; many regional exporters are inconsistent lot-to-lot. Egypt Globe Group was incorporated in 2014 with a Quality Assurance division at its nucleus, on-site laboratories at the Siwa and Qattara mines and the Sinai and Red Sea saltworks, and port-side QC teams at every loading berth. Specification is guaranteed at the port of loading and is binding under the sales contract; a lot outside its CoA is rejected at the port, never re-graded or renegotiated.

Technical specification

De-icing salt — comparison across standards and grades

¹ Rock salt ships at natural moisture (1.0 % or 1.5 % grades) or kiln-dried to ≤ 0.25 %, ≤ 0.5 % or ≤ 1.0 % (winter) on request. Ca / Mg / SO₄ are maximum mass fractions; E535 = sodium ferrocyanide (YPS) anti-caking.

Water insolubles ≤ 0.50 % on Type 1 grades (≤ 0.30 % on washed kiln-dried sea salt, ≤ 0.80–1.00 % on Type 2). Bulk density 950–1,200 kg/m³ rock, 900–1,150 kg/m³ kiln-dried sea salt (EN 1097-3); sieve by ISO 13320 / test sieve; NaCl by ISO 2481 (halogens as Cl); insolubles by ISO 2479. Full sieve curves per standard are tabulated on the de-icing salt standards worldwide reference, which compares 84 national specifications.

De-icing salt — Logistical & QA parameters

MOQ — containerised (FCL)

240 MT (10 × 20 ft FCL)

MOQ — break-bulk vessel

2,000 MT; parcels to 65,000 MT (Type 2 and lump grades: bulk vessel only)

Packing

Bulk vessel · 1 MT FIBC · 50 kg PP woven bags · 25 kg PP bags on fine grades

Loading ports — rock salt

El Dekheila (EGEDK), Alexandria (EGALY), Damietta (EGDAM), Ain Sokhna (EGSOK)

Loading ports — sea salt

Al-Arish (EGAAC), Port Said East (EGPSE), Damietta (EGDAM), Ain Sokhna (EGSOK)

Incoterms

FOB / CFR / CIF; DAP / DDP on request

Lead time

1–2 weeks (standard grades); 2–4 weeks (0/2 fine, GOST Grade II, Type 2); 2–3 weeks (pre-wetted)

Independent inspection protocol

TÜV Austria (primary, EU / GCC), SGS, Intertek (US / UK), Bureau Veritas; Cotecna on request. All ISO/IEC 17020 + 17025. Composite sampling at the loading belt per the governing standard, draft survey on bulk vessels, witnessed NaCl and moisture determination at the port laboratory, sealed retain samples.

Internal QA gate

Per-lot Certificate of Analysis issued by the port laboratory before the B/L is released; any lot outside its CoA is rejected at the loading port, never re-graded or renegotiated

HS code

2501.00 (heading; national subheading per destination tariff)

QA verification chain

Applications & markets

• Bulk rock salt for de-icing — Siwa & Qattara rock salt, ≥97% NaCl, for highway, motorway and municipal roads
• Bulk sea salt for de-icing — North Sinai & Red Sea sea salt across EU / UK / US / Nordic standards
• Egyptian road salt overview — wholesale road salt for highway authorities
• De-icing applications — airport aprons, pre-treatment stockpiles, footpath salt
• Industrial salt market, Egypt and HS 2501 salt export market — capacity, producers and trade flows
• Grade selection: EN 16811-1 Grade A vs B vs C · pre-wetted salt — when it is needed

Standards & documentation

• EN 16811-1 · SS-EN 16811-1 · BS 3247 · ASTM D632 · AASHTO M-143 · GOST 13830
• ISO 9001 for salt suppliers — the management system behind every lot
• Export documentation: Commercial Invoice, Packing List, B/L, Certificate of Origin (Egyptian Chamber of Commerce; EUR.1 / PAFTA / COMESA / AfCFTA preferential), per-lot CoA
• Independent inspection services and quality & compliance

Shipped record: more than 2 million tonnes of Egyptian salt shipped since 2015.