Transport Ministry
Egypt’s Transport Minister agrees to metro discounts for cancer patients
Egypt
September 12, 2018
Egypt’s Transport Minister agrees to metro discounts for cancer patients
Transport Minister Hisham Arafat has approved a decision to give cancer patients discount prices for metro memberships. The membership…
Egyptian Railways Authority develops 156 stations at total cost of LE1 billion
Egypt
August 25, 2018
Egyptian Railways Authority develops 156 stations at total cost of LE1 billion
The Egyptian Railways Authority is implementing a process of developing, improving and maintaining 156 railway stations for a total…
Transport Ministry denies reporting Aswan train accident as ‘deliberate’
Egypt
August 1, 2018
Transport Ministry denies reporting Aswan train accident as ‘deliberate’
Transport Ministry Spokesperson Mohamed Ezz denied media conjecture that an unknown person deliberately caused Sunday’s train accident that injured six…
Transport Ministry announces free railway seats for cancer patients
Egypt
June 19, 2018
Transport Ministry announces free railway seats for cancer patients
The Ministry of Transport has announced that four seats in each regular train will be reserved for cancer patients…
Transport Ministry to establish Egyptian-French company for third metro line operation
Egypt
April 17, 2018
Transport Ministry to establish Egyptian-French company for third metro line operation
Egypt’s Transport Ministry has begun procedures to establish an Egyptian-French company in partnership with the French RATP company to manage…
Egypt starts express electric train project Alexandria-Cairo-Aswan
Egypt
January 20, 2018
Egypt starts express electric train project Alexandria-Cairo-Aswan
Egypt’s Transport Ministry announced on Friday the commencement of the Alexandria-Cairo-Aswan express electric train project following studies approved by former…
Construction of Cairo-New Administrative Capital electric train to begin in 2018
Egypt
October 31, 2017
Construction of Cairo-New Administrative Capital electric train to begin in 2018
The construction of an electric train line to connect Cairo to the New Administrative Capital will begin in 2018, Assistant…
Price increase was the kiss of life to metro system: Minister
Egypt
April 8, 2017
Price increase was the kiss of life to metro system: Minister
Transport Minister Hisham Arafat said Saturday that the increase in the price of the metro ticket gave the kiss of…
Egypt ranks 108 out of 185 countries for road accidents: report
Business
October 18, 2016
Egypt ranks 108 out of 185 countries for road accidents: report
Egypt ranks 108 of 185 countries for the number of road accidents each year, according to data published in an…
Actual price of heavily subsidized metro tickets LE25: Transport Ministry
Egypt
August 14, 2016
Actual price of heavily subsidized metro tickets LE25: Transport Ministry
The Transportation Ministry has released details of a study showing that ticket prices for the Cairo metro system are very…