Thales wins 109-million-euro Egyptian rail contract
French electronics manufacturer Thales has won a 109-million-euro contract to update Egypt’s most used railway line, between Cairo and the port city Alexandria.
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Thales will modernise the signals, telecommunications and central traffic control system of the 208-kilometre Cairo-Alexandria line, which carries 25 million passengers a year.
Work is scheduled to take four years and when it is finished will increase capacity to 32 million passengers a year, raise potential speed from 140 to 160 km per hour and reduce the time between trains from 10 to five minutes, Thales said Sunday.
The company has been working in Egypt for the last 30 years and is currently involved in the construction of line three of the Cairo metro.
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