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Tunnels Authority to Supply Cairo's Metro with 6 Trains


Wed 07 Aug 2019 | 02:16 PM
Ahmed Yasser

National Tunnels Authority signed two contracts with South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem and France’s Socofer to provide 6 new metro trains and 2 locomotives for line 2 of the Cairo metro.

The South Korean company will manufacture and supply the six trains at a cost of $131 million, as well as provide maintenance for the trains and supply spare parts for eight years. The new purchases are part of an EGP 30 bn plan to revamp Lines 1and 2 of the Cairo Metro.

This move comes under the country's comprehensive plan to develop the metro's first and second line at a cost of EGP 30 billion, as well as the Cairo's second metro line serves around 1.76 million passengers daily.

The plan aims to upgrade all the trains, as 32 trains worth LE 12.5 billion will be purchased for the first line (Marg-Helwan) in addition to the six air-conditioned trains that will be purchased from the Korean Company.

Also, including the three metro lines, the third phase of line 3 of the Cairo metro will be connected to Rod El-Farag axis, which links Greater Cairo with El-Dabaa and Marsa Matrouh.

An interchange station will be established at the end of the third line, linking it to Rod El-Farag axis (Greater Cairo-El-Dabaa). This interchange station will also be connected to the electric train project.

The third phase of line 3 will connect the working-class districts of Attaba, Bulaq and Imbaba with Cairo University in Giza. The phase will also pass through well-off neighborhoods like Zamalek, Mohandiseen and Agouza. The construction work on the 18-kilometer phase officially started in 2017.

Additionally, the fourth phase runs from Haroun station to Heliopolis Square, while the first one is from Attaba to Abbasiya and the second phase is from the Fair Zone to Ahram.

Noteworthy, the European Bank will provide the National Railway Authority with a loan to buy the six air-conditioned trains as per the agreement signed in 2014 to upgrade Egyptian railways.