The authors of this paper consider it a great privilege to participate in this volume in honor of Professor Abdel Monem Sayed. Not only do we share in the esteem for the great scholar, but we feel a filial affection for the Maestro and Egyptologist who wrote an important new page in the history of Ancient Egypt with the discovery, some thirty years ago, of the Middle Kingdom Port of Saw. As members of the Italo-American Archaeological Expedition to Marsa Gawasis, we present here the initial news and some preliminary interpretation of the administrative activities carried out in Saw, in the hope that they may be appreciated by Professor Sayed and may constitute a small contribution to knowledge of this important site.