Minister of Transport announced the arrival of a new batch of new railway passenger carriages, with a total of 17 carriages, to Alexandria Port, bringing the total number of carriages that have reached to be so far to 138 carriages, as part of a deal to manufacture and supply 1,300 new carriages, Lieutenant General Engineer \ Kamel Al-Wazir – received new batch of passenger railroad carriages with a total of 17 carriages that have reached to be so far to 138 carriages, as part of a deal to manufacture and supply 1,300 new railroad carriages, which is the largest deal In the history of Egypt's railways, which had been signed by the Egyptian Railways Authority and the Russian company Transmach, representing the Russian-Hungarian alliance, with a value of one billion 16 million and 50 thousand Euros. The Minister of Transport confirmed that the 17 carriages that arrived are third-class carriages with dynamic ventilation, the deal of 1,300 new passenger carriages includes 800 air-conditioned carriages (500 third-class air-conditioned carriages, a new service that is offered to passengers for the first time in the history of Egypt’s railways, 180 second-class luxury carriages, 90 luxurious first-class carriages and 30 air-conditioned buffet carriages) and 500 third-class carriages with Dynamic ventilation. Lieutenant General Engineer \ Kamel Al-Wazir - Minister of Transport pointed that there are other new carriages that will arrive before the end of this month, with the arriving rate agreed upon with the manufacturing Co., explaining that the new carriages that consecutively arrives installed with the new locomotives so consecutively new trains operating on the railroads, in the framework of thorough operating plan depends on the continuous improvement of the service provided to the public passengers adding the deal contributes in raising the efficiency of daily operations, regularity of operating schedules especially as this coincides with the projects of modernization of the infrastructure works of the authority that are being implemented in terms of signaling systems, development of crossings, renewal of bars, improvement and development of stations and workshops, that all these procedures and projects that the ministry is implementing contributed to the increase the rates of safety and security in the operation of trains and the improvement in the level of service, Captain \ Tarek Shaheen – Chairman of Alex. Port Authority directed concerned in the port to present all help to unload train carriages and exit the port safely and easily.
