Cairo - Mubasher: The Egyptian Minister of Transport, Kamel El-Wazir, witnessed the signing of a new contract between the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) and a South Korean consortium led by Hyundai Rotem.
The $110 million contract includes modernising the signalling for the 118-kilometre (km) Nag Hammadi – Luxor line as well as providing maintenance services for two years, the minister said in a statement on Wednesday.
The project, which guarantees a fourth safety integrity level (SIL4), will increase the capacity on railways to 200 trains per day from the current 56.
This agreement is part of the country's railway signalling modernisation project with total lengths of 1,800 km at a combined cost of EGP 46.8 billion with the aim of improving safety.
