ALEXANDRIA – Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development and Transport and Industry Minister Kamel el-Wazir underlined on Sunday the importance of Alstom industrial complex in Borg el- Arab city in securing the needs of local markets, exporting surplus to the Mideast and African cities and providing thousands of job opportunities.
The project, the minister said, is part of efforts to localise manufacturing of mobile units in implementation of the directives of President Abel Fattah El Sisi.
The complex will include two factories, one for manufacturing electric systems and railway system components including control circuits, electrical braids, electric panels and signals and the second for producing mobile units for metro lines, trams, LRT, monorails, and express trains.
He said contracts were made with a number of global companies specialized in the railway domain, citing cooperation with France’s Alstom company to set up industrial complex in Borg el Arab city on an area of 40 feddans, Spain’s Colway company to establish a factory at Kom Abu Rady workshops in Beni Suef to produce internal components of railway trains.
He also talked about cooperation with South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem to locally manufacture air-conditioned metro carriages and cooperation with Austria’s Voestalpine Group to set up a factory to produce railway switches and to manage, operate and develop the Abbassia workshops.
He added that six factories were also established to produce railway flanges owned by Egyptian national companies, including 4 factories to produce flanges for the high-speed electric train network.
