photo: Profimedia/NGE to Build Egypt's First High-speed Rail Link Connecting Mediterranean and Red Sea Coasts
French company NGE has announced that it has won a contract to build Egypt's first high-speed rail link, a 330-kilometre stretch connecting the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts.
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The link will form the first section of a 660-kilometre line stretching west along the Mediterranean coast to the city of Marsa Matrouh towards the Libyan border. The NGE also said in its Thursday report that the construction of the section between the Red Sea coast towns of Ain Sokhna and Burg el-Arab near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria via the New Administrative Capital (NAC) east of Cairo would take about 19 months.
Egypt's more than 104 million inhabitants rely heavily on the railways for intercity transport, but the existing network is plagued by sometimes tragic and fatal accidents caused by ageing infrastructure.
Egypt signed a $4.5 billion contract in 2021 with a consortium of Egyptian and German companies led by Arab Contractors, Orascom and Siemens to design, build and maintain the line between Ajn as-Sukhna and Marsa Matrouh. It is one of several major construction projects announced by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi after he took office as head of state in 2014.
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NGE is already working with other companies to expand and renovate the Cairo Metro, a major city of more than 20 million people.
Sisi is also pushing for the completion of the delayed NAC to ease Cairo's chronic traffic congestion. Canadian manufacturing group Bombardier announced in 2019 that it had signed a multi-billion-dollar deal to build two automated monorail lines connecting Greater Cairo to the NAC.
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Source: news.sk
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