Lieutenant-General \ Kamel Al-Minister, Minister of Transport, announced that the port of Alexandria will receive a new batch of new railway passenger carriages with a total of 22, bringing the total of what has reached so far to 103 carriages, as part of the deal for manufacturing and supplying 1,300 new passenger railway carriages, which is the biggest and largest deal In the history of Egypt's railways, the contract between the Egyptian Railways Authority and the Russian company Transmach, representing the Russian-Hungarian alliance, was worth one billion and 16 million and 50 thousand Euros. The Minister of Transport confirmed that the 22 carriages that arrived are third-class carriages with dynamic ventilation, and that the deal for 1,300 new passenger carriages includes 800 air-conditioned carriages (500 third-class air-conditioned carriages , which are a new service that is offered to passengers for the first time in the history of Egypt Railways and a luxurious 180 second-class ) 90 premium first class trolleys and 30 air-conditioned buffet trolleys) and 500 dynamic ventilated third-class carriages. Lieutenant-General Engineer \ Kamel Al-Wazir, indicated that with the arrival of this batch of carriages , 35 carriages have arrived during the current month, which is the average monthly supply agreed upon with the manufacturer, pointing out that this rate enables the Railways Authority to form 3 new trains consisting of tractors and all new carriages that are entered Per month on body lines, adding that the deal contributes to raising the efficiency of the daily operation and the regularity of the 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, and 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, which the citizen began to feel on the ground. 25/9/2020
