The Prime Minister of Egypt, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, described the transportation network in Egypt as a "development vessel", reviewing the country's achievements in the file of transportation networks development and modernization over the past six years, explaining that Egypt was ranked the 118th in the world in the road quality index. Through years of work and development, it has ranked up 90 places, and is now the 28th in the world. The state announced that the goal this time of developing the national road network and the transportation sector in general is not only to reduce densities within cities, but Egypt is preparing for a more ambitious plan that transfers development from eastern to western Egypt, to serve the national urban development plan for Egypt until the year of 2052, which aims to double The urban area of Egypt, a plan that needed vessels for development, as described by the Prime Minister Egypt exceeded the implementation rates in a record, so what was scheduled to be completed in the year of 2027 as the first stage of the road development plan until the year of 2052, is about to be completed a few years after the beginning of implementation, and the state was actually able to plan and implement 7 thousand kilometers of new or upgraded roads, and the total of investments that are being implemented on the ground are 950 Billion EGP (Almost one trillion EGP), of which the state has already spent...
2020-11-05 13:05:49
As part of the state's plans to make the new city of Alamein an attractive city for stable housing, the higher education sector was among the state’s highest priorities in planning the city, so Prof. Dr. Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education, announced the progress of work in three major universities that are being established, which opened some of their colleges during the 2020 academic year. Al-Alamein International University for Science and Technology Al-Alamein International University for Science and Technology, will accommodate 25,000 (25 thousand) students upon completion of its construction, with investments amounting to 3 Billion EGP, according to a statement by Dr. Assem El-Gazzar, minister of Housing and Urban Communities, it will include a high-level student hostel and thirteen different colleges, including Medicine, Engineering, Technological Sciences, Pharmacy, Management Sciences, Arts, Politics and Economics. Al-Alamein International University is considered among the first important projects within the city’s first phase, and recently studying has begun in four colleges, namely: International Law, Business Administration, Engineering, Applied Arts and Post-Graduate Studies, studying has begun in the 2020 academic year, out of thirteen colleges that will be set up. &nb...
2020-11-05 13:10:33
Written by: Ali Dagher Within the framework of the project to support planning and development management in Greater Cairo, and based on the special assignments to prepare a plan for the development of the southern entrance area of the city of Giza as it is the main gate to the city, a development plan is being prepared, which main objectives are to link and integrate major development projects and raise the value and efficiency of land use in addition to establishing a comprehensive collective transport center in El-Moneeb area to solve the problem of the transportation system and random parking, as well as establishing administrative and service centers that meet the citizens needs. And based on the meeting held on August, 25th. 2020, at the headquarters of the New Urban Communities Authority headed by the Minister of Housing, General. Governor of Giza, the Chairman of the Authority’s Board of Directors, Vice President of the Urban Development Authority, the Advisor to the Minister of Housing for Roads and Transportation, and representatives of the governorate and consultants, in which the development of El-Monib Square was discussed, and the meeting ended with the directives of Dr. Eng. Minister of Housing, to prepare a plan to fully develop the southern entrance area of the city of Giza. Several coordination meetings were also held at the headquarters of the General Organization for Urban Planning, headed by the Chairma...
2020-12-17 13:48:55
The Ministry of Transport is preparing to open the Qus Axis on the Nile River in Qena Governorate, after implementing 98.5% of the project, to connect the eastern desert road with the western desert road, crossing the Nile River and the western agricultural road north of the city. The Qus Corridor is 19 kilometers long and 21 meters wide, with two traffic lanes in each direction, and includes 15 tunnels and 15 bridges, including 6 main bridges at the axis intersection with the eastern desert road, the Nile River, the Kilabiyyah Canal of the Cairo / Aswan agricultural road, the western agricultural road, the railway and the western desert road. The axis contributes to the development of religious tourism in the region, where there are many mosques, churches and archaeological sites, as well as to reduce the risk of movement by Nile ferryboats that transport citizens from east to west of the Nile and vice versa. The corridor also helps reduce the inter-distances between the axes of the Nile to 25 kilometers to facilitate movement and serve development projects and new urban communities, so that the axis is an integrated transverse linking the road network east and west of the Nile and not just a bridge on the Nile.
2020-12-17 15:47:27
The Minister of Transport, Lieutenant General Kamel Al-Wazir, said that there are a number of promising investment opportunities provided by the Ministry of Transport, indicating that a number of rail transport projects have been identified in which it is possible to cooperate with investors to implement them based on BOT model (Build - Operate- Transfer the project to state ownership). The Minister of Transport pointed out that one of the most important projects is the rehabilitation of the Abu Tartour - Qena - Safaga - Hurghada railway, and the construction of the Rubiki - the 10th Ramadan - Belbeis railway and linking it with the dry port in the tenth of Ramadan. He spotted much light on the construction of the sixth metro line - Maadi – Al-Khosous, and the construction of the Aswan - Toshka railway line and extending it to Wadi Halfa in Sudan, the construction of the Al-Fardan railway - Bir Al-Abd - Al-Arish - Rafah, passing through the Suez Canal Economic Zone, and extending it in the future to Taba, and finally the construction of Marsa Matrouh - Gargoub port rail line, the construction of the Marsa Matrouh – Siwa rail line and the extension of the Matrouh - Salloum line to the city of Benghazi in Libya. The minister clarified that in light of the great interest of the Egyptian state to benefit from the maritime transport system to increase the gross national product (GNP), a number of projects have been identified that can be coop...
2020-11-12 16:04:41
Agreement on financing a number of infrastructure projects in the field of transport worth € 1,128 billion: LTG Eng. Kamel El-Wazir - Minister of Transport, met with officials of the European Investment Bank (via video conference) to discuss cooperation in various transportation fields. The meeting was attended by the head of the Railways Authority, the leaders of the Ministry of Transport and the National Authority for Tunnels. At the beginning of the meeting, the minister praised the fruitful cooperation between the two sides in the field of environmentally friendly electric traction projects that contribute to the daily movement of millions of citizens, referring to the ongoing investment cooperation with the bank, worth € 600 million in the implementation of the third phase of the Underground third line out of a total of € 939.2 million euros + EGP 9525.4 million (value of the implementation phase), as well as the investment cooperation with the bank with a value of € 350 million in the first line development works, the total cost of which is (751 million Euros). The negotiations revolved around the governmental agreement for the financing of the urban transport infrastructure projects to be signed with the bank at a value of 1,128 billion euros to finance a number of projects, namely (the project of rehabilitation of the Raml Tram in Alexandria at a value of €138 million, the electrification project of the Abu Qir /...
2020-11-22 13:55:10
The project of New Assiut Barrage is considered the great water passage on the River Nile after the High Dam. It is one of the projects carried out by the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources - Reservoirs and Grand Barrages Sector (RGBS) to organize the water management in the agriculture and irrigation field and serve 5 Upper Egypt governorates. The project was established in partnership between the Egyptian and the German governments as an alternative to the old Assiut barrages. It is assumed to benefit from it in agriculture, irrigation to conserve water, and electricity generation through the power plant, as well as river navigation, and tourism promotion through the maritime locks, and road and transport work. Its construction continued for several years until it was inaugurated by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Project Description: The proposed Barrage is multipurpose Project: irrigation, navigation, and hydropower. New Assiut Barrage Project consists of an embankment dam, a gated spillway, a river hydropower plant and a navigation lock in the river Nile. The project scope of works: the construction of 2 navigation locks of 150m x 17m according to the latest international technologies to accommodate the increase in the river and tourism transport units; the construction of a 4-lanes upper bridge over the new barrage with capacity 70 tons to link the East and West banks of the River Nile in Assiut. The Barrage Project components are: Sluiceway with 8...
2020-12-05 11:17:24
Markaz Dairut (Municipal Division), the last Markaz of Assiut governorate from the northern side, is one of the most important projects implemented by the Ministry of Transport. The project,"Dairout Free Corridor", which is built on the Nile River, connects the "eastern desert, western desert and agricultural" roads, at a total cost of EGP 1.7bn. The "Dairout Free Corridor" project is a great quantum leap in the movement of transport and communications. It contributes to the link between urban and industrial communities because it includes 13 industrial work, including 2 main bridges (a bridge over the Nile River with a length of about 1000 m, and a bridge on the railway with a length of 865 m above the "Assiut-Sohag" agricultural road, the "Cairo-Aswan" railway and the Al-Ibrahimiya canal, with 4 navigational openings, 10 shallow bridges and 1 culvert for torrents, with a length of 15 km and a width of 21 meters on two lanes. The project is one of the national projects that the state has recently implemented that aim to achieve sustainable development and Egypt's Vision 2030 in light of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's interests to implement such projects and develop services provided to citizens in various sectors, especially infrastructure projects and the development of roads and bridges network to facilitate transportation between East and West, and to provide services to citizens in Upper Egypt gove...
2020-12-05 12:09:35
The Egyptian Ministry of Transport intends to expand railway projects in cooperation with the American company of "Bechtel" to implement the sixth metro line, which is 30 kilometers long. The Egyptian Minister of Transport, Kamel El-Wazir, said that Egypt is moving ahead with plans to expand the Metro and rail networks, and is close to concluding an agreement with Bechtel to implement the sixth Metro line in Cairo. Speaking to the American Chamber of Commerce on Monday, the Egyptian minister said that most of the largest transportation projects, which also include dry ports and river transport, must be completed by the end of 2024. The minister said that Egypt is working on concluding a memorandum of understanding with Bechtel for feasibility studies and implementing the sixth Cairo Metro line project, at the cost of 5 billion USD, over a length of 30 Kilometers. He explained that Egypt had collected funding for the metro line from Canada, the United States, Britain, France and Japan, without revealing its route, but reports said that it would extend east of the Nile from north to south of Cairo. On the other hand, the Egyptian Orascom Construction Company said that it had signed a contract with the Japanese company Mitsubishi and the National Authority of Tunnels in Egypt, a contract worth 800 million USD, to work in the first phase of 19 Kilometers of the fourth metro line in Cairo,...
2020-12-14 13:12:29
Lt General / Kamel El-Wazir , Egyptian Transport Minister, and his French counterpart, Mr. Jean-Baptiste, witnessed the signing of the executive agreement for the loan presented by the French Development Agency " Agence Française de Développement" (AFD) to finance the development and rehabilitation works of the 1st Metro Line worth €50 million. The agreement was signed by Dr. Essam Wali, head of the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT), Mr. Fabio Grazi, Director of the French Agency office in Cairo, and the French ambassador in Cairo, Mr. Stéphane Romatet. The Minister of Transport emphasized the depth of relations between Egypt and France and the historical and current fruitful cooperation in the field of transport, as a number of joint projects and contracts are being implemented, the most important of which is the implementation of the third phase of the third line of the metro, which is implemented by the alliance (French Vinci / Orascom / Arab Contractors) as well as the signing of a managemet, operation and maintenance contract of the third metro line (Cairo University - Imbaba - Abbasiya - Adly Mansour) between the National Tunnels Authority and the French RATP DEV company, pointing out that he is looking forward to more fruitful cooperation with French companies in all areas of transportation. The Minister revealed that the purpose of the project is to renovate and modernize the Cairo Metro Line 44km from North to South ac...
2020-12-17 12:49:55
Dr. Assem Al-Jazzar, Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities, announced the start of the implementation of the "Northern axis" in Al-Shorouk City parallel to the electric train route, which is the largest road project in the current stage in the city, For what will achieve the ease of traffic in the future Facilitates transportation from Ismailia Entrance No. (1) To Entrance No. (2), with a length of 4 km. Engineer Abdel Raouf Al Ghiti, Head of the El Shorouk City Development Authority, explained It will be implemented in 3 stages, which is to develop the old part from Entrance (1) to the train station, with a length of (800 m), and the second and third stages to the entrance of Ismailia (2), Linking to the bridge and the east axis Noting that the project includes implementation in two directions Each road has three traffic lanes, Includes traffic planning, guiding and warning signs, As well as public lighting, a sidewalk and a central island Engineer Abdel Raouf Al-Ghiti indicated that the supervisory staff and the executing company were emphasized for speedy implementation in the best way, Due to the benefit to El Shorouk City from this project.
2020-12-17 12:59:25
Eng. Kamel Al Wazir - Minister of Transport made an inspection tour to follow up the implementation rates of 3 huge projects in the field of electric traction , started by inspecting the LRT electric train project (Al Salam / New Administrative Capital / Tenth of Ramadan) Where the minister inspected the implementation work of the stations and the project bridge and held an expanded meeting with the leaders of the Agreement Authority and the companies implementing the project, He directed the necessity to work around the clock And the intensification of all work and full commitment to the time plan of the project And that all work be done according to high quality standards , Where the electric train is considered a new artery of development in the new urban communities and achieves speed of movement and the link between Cairo and the new cities (Obour - The Future - El Shorouk - New Heliopolis - Badr - the industrial zone and the tenth of Ramadan - the new administrative capital) The Minister of Transport indicated that the project is 90 km long with 16 stations and plans for the opening of the first and second stages at the celebrations of October 2021, noting that the first stage of the project is currently being implemented It extends from Adly Mansour station to the Administrative Capital 1 station, with a length of 66.3 km and a number of 11 stations and the second stage, which extends from the (Administrative Capital Station 1) to the (Administrative C...
2020-12-17 13:00:37
Egypt’s Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir held a meeting with Mr. Masaki Noke, Ambassador of Japan in Cairo, to discuss cooperation in overhauling and maintenance of 35 Cairo subway second-line trains which were supplied by Japanese company Mitsubishi since 1996. The two sides discussed the latest developments in the technical offer submitted by the Japanese company Mitsubishi to implement the manufacturing and supply of mobile units, CP 412 for the first phase of the fourth line of the metro. Wazir emphasized the importance of developing and maintaining these trains as it would increase their efficiency, especially with the addition of air-conditioning. He added that cooperating with the National Egyptian Company for Railroad Industries is an essential part of this project, and that intensive meetings will be required between the National Tunnels Authority, NERIC and Mitsubishi to come up with the best plan for their development in a speedily manner. The Transport Ministry places great importance in developing the first and second lines of the subway, he said, alongside updating the current fleets in parallel with finalizing the subway network lines according to the latest technologies. Noting the depth of Egyptian-Japanese relations, Wazir pointed out the fruitful cooperation between both sides in multiple fields – particularly transportation and metro projects.
2021-01-13 09:30:29
Lt. General Eng. Kamel El-Wazir, Minister of Transport, conducted an inspection tour in Upper Egypt, where he followed up the implementation of the first phase of the development of the Western Upper Egypt Desert Road in the distance from Cairo to Minya with a length of 230 km. The project includes the development and expansion of the road to become 3 lanes in each direction with a width of 12 m., the construction of an asphalt road for trucks that includes 3 lanes in the direction of Asyut with a paving width of 11 meters, and a concrete road that includes two lanes in the direction of Cairo with a paving width of 9 meters to carry trucks coming from the quarries and Upper Egypt to Cairo, in addition to establishing 21 industrial works, including 5 bridges and 16 tunnels. During his inspection of the various sectors of the project, which he started from the toll collection station in 2.85 km on the road, the minister directed that work must be carried out around the clock and standard specifications must observed in its implementation, paying attention to traffic safety insurance and not to set up any random bumps on the road, stressing not to transfer traffic on the service road until after the design pavement sector is completely finished and that a distance of 50 meters is settled on both sides of the road in both directions according to the instructions of the political leadership. The minister stated that the project was divided among 10 specialized companies...
2021-01-09 19:22:33
Orascom Construction announces that it has signed, together with Siemens Mobility and Arab Contractors, a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) to design, install and commission Egypt’s first high-speed rail system. The agreement encompasses a rail system with a network of 1000 km. The first high-speed line will stretch across 460km and has an order value of around USD 3 billion. This initial line, which will also be operable for freight transport, will connect Ain Sokhna to Al Alamein while passing through the New Administrative Capital. This landmark project adds to Orascom Construction’s large portfolio of high-profile transportation projects, which includes monorail, light rail, railway and metro. It also reinforces the Group’s position as a leading partner on mega projects in Egypt. Osama Bishai, CEO of Orascom Construction, commented, “We continue to build on our track record as a major player in the transportation sector. Following our joint success with Siemens on Egypt’s mega power projects, we are pleased to cooperate once again with our long-term repeat partner. This project will connect distant parts of Egypt in a sustainable manner while contributing to the infrastructure and economic development of the country.”
2021-02-02 14:59:58
Lt. General Kamel El- Wazir, Minister of Transport, met with the Hungarian minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade Peter Szijjarto in the presence of both the head of the railway authority and the head of the Hungarian company Transmach Holding, on the sidelines of receiving the first batch of new cars supplied from Hungary as part of the deal to manufacture and supply 1,300 new railway cars, which was signed between the railway authority and the Russian company, Transmach, representing the Russian-Hungarian consortium, worth one billion and 16 million and 50 thousand euros, of which 260 vehicles have so far arrived. The two sides praised the distinguished relations between the two countries, the fruits of which were the carriages deal being supplied, which is considered the largest in the history of Egyptian railways, where the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade expressed his appreciation for this deal, which he described as a bright sign in the field of cooperation between the two sides, stressing the commitment of the Hungarian side to the deadlines for the supply of vehicles. Peter Szijjarto said that the shipment of the first batch of air-conditioned vehicles manufactured in Hungary will start next June 2021. The Hungarian side expressed interest in launching cooperation with the Egyptian side in the field of localizing the railway industry, pointing to the interest in cooperation in the field of manufacturing 200 new railway sleeping carriages w...
2021-03-03 11:50:36
