Mohamed Ali Ould Sidi Mohamed, Mauritanian Minister of Equipment and Transport, and Sayed Al-Wazir, member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Contractors Company signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to extend the agreement for the Nouakchott city tram construction project.
The Mauritanian Minister of Equipment and Transport explained that the completion of the tramway project in the capital falls within the framework of the program of pledges of His Excellency the President of the Republic, Mohamed Ould Sheikh Al-Ghazouani, which aims to enable citizens to move easily inside and outside the capital, and that this project is considered one of the most common means of transportation in some countries, and that The signing comes in accordance with the memorandum signed between the two parties, in July 2022.
On his part, Sayed Al-Wazir explained that the Arab Contractors Company presented a presentation on the preliminary studies prepared by the company, which included a proposal for “tramway” lines in Nouakchott (a 42-kilometre line in Nouakchott divided into two lines with an interchangeable section of 1,200 km) in addition to another proposal for financing methods. The project .
On another level, the Egyptian delegation met with the Minister of Water and Sanitation in Mauritania, Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb, where a number of projects were discussed in the field of seawater desalination and wastewater treatment plants. The meeting witnessed interest on the part of the Mauritanian minister in cooperating with the Arab Contractors Company due to its experience. great in this field.