Russian Trains Arrives at Alexandria Port

Hours ago, the Transport Minister Kamel El Wazir announced the arrival of a new batch of Russian passenger trains, as part of a deal to manufacture and supply 1,300 new cars, which is the largest  deal in the history of Egypt’s railways.

The new batch is part of a deal signed between the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) and Russia's Transmash, El Wazir reported . Meanwhile, the deal comprises 500 aerodynamically ventilated third-class coaches as well as 800 air conditioned ones, 500 of which are third-class air conditioned carriages as a new service offered to passengers for the 1st time in Egypt.

Russian Trains Arrives at Alexandria Port

Also, the 800 air conditioned coaches include 180 luxury second-class coaches, 90 luxury first-class ones and 30 air conditioned cafeterias.

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On other hand, the deal contributes in raising the efficiency of the daily operation and the regularity of the operating schedules, especially since this coincides with the modernization projects of the infrastructure works of the authority being implemented. Those latterinclude signaling systems, crossings development , renewal of bars, improvement and stations and workshops development, as all these procedures and projects that the ministry is implementing contributed to the increase the safety and security rates.