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When those units arrive, the total number of railcars delivered of that category will be 121.
Both ministers began by discussing ways of acquiring funding to finance the feasibility studies.
Investments in the railway sector are projected to be LE142 billion over one decade between 2014 and 2024.
By the end of October, Egypt is expected to receive 17 new locomotives.
A batch of Transmashholding railcars arrived to the Port of Alexandria on Wednesday.
The company will manufacture and supply 100 locomotives to support air-conditioned trains operating on long lines.
As a result of the derailment, a carriage fall, but cranes managed to lift it; meanwhile, a tractor dragged the train back to its normal course on the tracks, the official said, adding that no human or financial causalities were reported.
A new batch of 18 Russian carriages, is scheduled to arrive at Alexandria Port by the end of this month.
Senior citizens above 70 years of age have been exempt from the metro ticket, while those above 60 will have a 50 percent discount upon showing their national ID.
A company was established under the name of “The Egyptian National Railways Industries” to undertake the establishment and the operation of the factory.
The vehicles have so far reached 81 out of a total 1,300 that should be imported as part of the deal.
President of Bombardier Inc. Danny Di Perna stated in a TV interview Sunday that he had met with Minister of Transportation Kamel al-Wazir.
Minister of Defense and Military Production Mohamed Zaki honored on Saturday evening the officers who retired in 2020 as well as the "train lady."
The decision follows an incident that was videotaped by a passenger, and went viral on social media.
The Egyptian military has thanked an Egyptian woman who paid for the train ticket of a young army conscript after a video of the Thursday incident went viral.
The second batch of the third batch of Transmashholding railcars will arrive at Alexandria Port next week.
A few months ago ERA began the construction works of the station located northern Giza governorate.
Thirty-three railcars had been delivered over two batches in May and July.
In October 2019, videos of passengers on a train talking about two young men who were compelled to jump off went viral on social media as one of them died.
Source at ERA told Egypt Today that the delivery of the fifth batch of the General Electric train engines scheduled for mid-August has been postponed to September.
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