A consortium made up of Egyptian contractor Orascom Building, Bouygues subsidiary Colas Rail and Japanese engineer Hitachi has been chosen to modernise Cairo’s Metro Line 1.
The €800m deal will contain renewing {the electrical} and management methods for 44km of monitor and 35 stations. The goal is to make the road extra environment friendly and to extend its capability.
Colas and Orascom will modernise the provision of electrical energy used to energy the trains, together with associated civil works. Hitachi Rail will deal with the signalling, management and telecoms infrastructure.
The road was the primary metro in Africa and the Center East when it was accomplished in 1987 and nonetheless kinds the spine of the town’s mass transit system. It is called “the French Line” amongst Cairenes, because it was financed by the French authorities and constructed by a consortium of seven French corporations along with Cairo-based Arab Contractors.
In 2021, French train-maker Alstom secured a $1bn contract to improve the rolling inventory on the road.
Orascom, which owns 35% of the contract, introduced the win in a press launch. It commented that it had a historical past of engaged on the Cairo metro going again to the Nineteen Eighties, and that extra not too long ago, it had labored on Line 4 of the system in addition to a regional metro in Alexandria.
It additionally famous that the corporate had a longstanding partnership with Colas and Hitachi.
The work, which is predicted to final 64 months, is being half funded by loans from the European Financial institution for Reconstruction and Growth, the European Funding Financial institution and L’Agence française de développement.
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