Digitalization works on empowering the marine industry to go beyond its traditional boundaries as well as providing new opportunities of increasing the productivity, efficiency and the sustainability of logistics services. Thus, the main goal of transforming the traditional container terminals in ports to digitalized container terminals is to adapt new technologies to allow better decision making, planning and better investment opportunities through high coordination and integration between management levels in different ports.

Ports play a vital role in the international economy through ensuring continuous safety and efficient flow of goods worldwide. Moreover, Ports offer a variety of value-added activities, such as regulatory requirements which include inspecting and releasing for inbound and outbound cargo provided by the customs authority, transhipment, container depot, as well as transporting cargo by container in a highly safe and efficient procedures. Furthermore, with the new trends of technologies ports services can be improved to ensure a higher level of efficiency. Therefore, this research aims to find out the impact of applying the digitalization technology on all Alexandria container terminals to increase their efficiency and competitiveness; through applying SWOT analysis to identify the strengths, and weaknesses as well as opportunities that can be gained by implementing digitalization while overcoming challenges and threats.