Siemens Mobility and its consortium partners Orascom Construction and The Arab Contractors have officially signed the contract with the Egyptian National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) to create the sixth largest high-speed rail system in the world
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AfDB extends US$174.08mn loan to bolster Egypt's railway safety and reliability
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a loan of US$174.08mn to finance reliability and performance upgrades to the country’s rail system under the Egypt National Railways Modernisation Project (ENRMP)
Egyptian National Railways uses Thales’ Electronic Interlocking System
Thales has commissioned a total of seven new stations across the three major railway lines over the last six months
Railway digitalisation set to boost economic recovery
The first Africa Digital Rail Forum 2020, hosted by Southern African Railways Association (SARA), Siemens Mobility and Huawei Technologies on 19 August, focused on the topic “Accelerating Railway Digitalisation, Boosting Economic Recovery
Alstom delivers power supply system in line linking Beni Suef to Asyut in Egypt
Alstom has supplied, tested and put into commercial operation its power supply system and computer-based interlocking signaling system Smartlock 400 GP for the Mallawi section in the line linking Beni Suef to Asyut