Egypt’s Minister of Transport, Kamel El-Wazir, announced on Tuesday the arrival of a new batch consisting of 1,300 railroad cars at Alexandria port as part of a deal with the Russian Transmashholding company.
El-Wazir added; ”the shipment includes 22 train vehicles as part of a EUR 1.016 billion agreement with the Russia’s firm .This brings the total number of railway cars shipped to Egypt under the deal to 173 of vehicles with dynamic ventilation.”
Railway Cars
El-Wazir.believes the new coaches will contribute to raising the efficiency of daily operations and the regularity of operating schedules, as well as achieving a huge qualitative shift in the level of services provided to passengers
In addition, the concerned agencies are working on ventures to modernise the railway’s signalling systems over 1,800km at a total cost of EGP 46.8 billion. Noteworthy, the agreement between the Russian company and the Egyptian National Railways, worth more than 1 billion euros, is the largest in the history of the Egyptian railway sector.
