Egypt will no longer import trains, metros or monorails, and will depend on local manufacturing
Today, the Ministry of Transport raised the slogan of self-sufficiency for trains, the metro and the monorail, after the Minister of Transport announced that no new contracts would be concluded to purchase metro or monorail trains from outside Egypt.
After the ministry was able to attract international companies to establish train factories in Egypt, headed by the Korean Hyundai Rotem and the Spanish Talgo, the development of the Semaf factory, and work to establish a huge industrial zone for the manufacture of electric trains at the Suez Canal axis with the German Siemens.
And this was shortly after the ministry announced that it would stop buying electric public transport buses from abroad and rely entirely on Egyptian factories such as Kastar, MCV, GB Polo, El Geyoushi and others.
The factory is under construction in the Electric Trains Industry City "Nirk" in the Suez Canal Economic Zone on an area of 300,000 square meters.
The factory is the first Korean Hyundai Rotem factory in Africa. It will manufacture and supply 40 metro trains with a total of 320 wagons for the second and third lines of the Cairo metro, with a local component of up to 30%..Plan to open and operate the factory before the end of 2023.
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The Minister of Transport signed a cooperation protocol with the international Spanish company "Talgo" to establish its first factories in Africa with investments of 500 million euros.
The new factory will be implemented in "Kom Abu Radi" in the city of Beni Suef on an area of 84 thousand square meters and will have a production capacity of 100 trains with advanced technology and will depend on local components at a rate of 45%.
The ministry stipulated that manufacturing and production be in the hands of Egyptian engineers and workers, and that the role of Spanish experts would suffice to supervise.