Alstom’s board of directors announced on November 8, 2021, the signing of an agreement worth 876 million euros for the modernization of the Cairo metro in Egypt.
Under the terms of the contract, the Metropolis metro will be designed and manufactured in France, at the Alstom site in Valenciennes Petite-Forêt. In addition, the other French sites concerned are Le Creusot, for bogies and engine integration, Villeurbanne, for passenger information systems, and Toulouse, for electrical engineering.
According to Bruno Le Maire, the French Minister of Economy and Finance, the contract provides for the supply by Alstom of 55 trains of 9 Metropolis cars and an 8-year maintenance contract. This order aims to modernize line 1 of the Cairo metro and maintenance work will be carried out at the Cairo depot and managed locally.
As a reminder, nine other projects were included in the intergovernmental agreement signed by Bruno Le Maire in June in the fields of transport, energy and water treatment.
Launched in 1987, Cairo Metro Line 1 is the oldest metro line in Egypt. It carries around 2.5 million passengers per day between El-Marg and Helwan.
