Egypt’s Transport min, Hungarian amb to Cairo discuss cooperation

  • Date: 23-Sep-2020
  • Source: Egypt Today
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:Egypt
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Egypt’s Transport min, Hungarian amb to Cairo discuss cooperation

CAIRO – 23 September 2020: Egypt's transportation Minister Kamel el Wazir held talks, Tuesday with Hungary's ambassador in Cairo on promoting cooperation in the various transportation fields.

Wazir lauded the current Egyptian-Hungarian cooperation in the transportation field represented in a deal to provide 1,300 rail cars worth € 16 million, describing it as the biggest deal in Egypt's railway history.

The coaches will be supplied by the Russian-Hungarian consortium, led by Transmashholding, the largest manufacturer of locomotives and rail equipment in Russia.

This deal will highly boost the quality of services offered to railway passengers, he added.

He affirmed the need for abiding by the timetable for the delivery of the new wagons.

The Ministry