ASWAN, Upper Egypt – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said on Tuesday that all state facilities, including the railways, had deteriorated over the past 60 years due to unfair pricing of provided services.
The railway sector, however, has tangibly improved in Egypt, Sisi acknowledged during the inauguration of expansions of a urea and ammonium nitrate plant in Kima district of Aswan in Upper Egypt.
The services had for long been offered at reduced prices and were thus downgraded, he noted.
But Sisi still assured that no price hikes would be introduced except in case of renovation of the whole railway sector, so that the citizens could sense an improvement in train services.
He put the value of investments pumped into the transport sector at about 1.7 trillion pounds with the aim to revamp it.
The railway authority has 450 locomotives, of which only 250 are efficient, the president said, stressing that Egyptians should not be offered less than the best locomotives and carriages.
