Egyptian Transport Minister Kamel al-Wazir on Sunday announced the arrival of a new batch of railway passenger coaches, with a total of 15 air-conditioned third-class coaches coming from Hungary, to Alexandria Port. This batch brings the total of what has been shipped since the beginning of the signing of the deal with the Russian-Hungarian coalition Transmashholding to 785 vehicles (499 dynamic ventilation coaches – 286 third-class air-conditioned coaches). The rest of the coaches will arrive in batches according to the scheduled timetable. The deal comes as part of an agreement concluded between the Transport Ministry, represented by the Egyptian National Railways, and the Hungarian “Ganz-Mavag” company to manufacture and supply the rest of the remaining coaches out of the total deal of 1,300 new railway coaches. The Hungarian company will supply 50 new buffet coaches that will operate on air-conditioned third-class Russian trains, bringing the total coaches to 1350 – the largest deal in the history of the authority.
