Monday 24/Mar/2025 – 10:38 AM
Lieutenant -General / Kamel Al -Wazir, Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development, Minister of Industry and Transport, conducted an important inspection tour of the Spanish Collway Company for the manufacture of the internal components of the mobile units, which are located within the workshops of Kom Abu Rady in Beni Suef, which was created with the aim of meeting the needs of the National Railways Authority of Egypt and all sectors of the Ministry of Transport and other Egyptian state sectors of these products by 70% in the local currency and then exporting abroad And where the project is implemented in two stages; The first stage that has been completed and currently operating and includes the establishment of a factory inside the workshops of Kom Abu Rady on an area of 3000 meters to manufacture the internal components of the moving units (tractors and trains) and the mass transportation that currently operates on the lines and needs to raise efficiency and rehabilitation, and the subsequent second stage, which will include the establishment of a factory with an area of 4000 square meters with the extension of the Abu Rady workshops to expand in quantitative production of the components The Interior for Tracks in order to meet the needs of the mobile units factories that are being established to establish in Egypt and where the minister was received by Eng./ Wajdi Radwan, Deputy Minister of Transport for Railways and Electrical Stage, and Engineer Mohamed Amer, head of the Railways Authority and the leadership of the authority.
An important inspection tour of the Spanish company Collway
The Deputy Prime Minister for Industry Development visited the Minister of Industry and Factory Transport and witnessed the stages of the production of the internal components of sleep vehicles across the various sections (sands of sand – sanding – paint cabins – ovens ….) and listened to an explanation of how to re -modernize and update the ancient internal components of the mobile units In the second stage, given its importance in expanding the production of the internal components of trains, stressing that this factory represents a large and strong starting point for localizing this industry in Egypt, which is what the Egyptian state aims to localize various industries with it to become a large industrial castle.
Then the team went to a full engineer to inspect the number of 2 vehicles (a bedroom + a club cart) that was rehabilitated, developed and fully updated as a model for rehabilitation of 65 sleeping vehicles and a Spanish club. It is planned that a sleep train consisting of 10 vehicles (9 bedrooms – a club cart) every 3 months will be completed to enter the service to provide the highest levels of service to the passenger public of citizens and tourists, especially as the vehicle was redesigned to keep up with the latest existing sleeping vehicles in the global market.
The Minister also listened to an explanation from the factory director about the history of these vehicles, the stages of their development, and the extent of financial interest from rehabilitating them through the Spanish Collway Factory, where these vehicles entered service as vehicles for passengers during the eighties, then they were transferred to a sleeping cart in 1993 AD and continued to operate as sleeping vehicles until the Collway Company was contract Sleep on the twenty -third of March 2025.
He pointed out that the new sleep vehicle is currently importing approximately one and a half euros, while the rehabilitation of one vehicle of these vehicles is costing according to the latest international specifications, equivalent to 329 thousand euros, representing about 22 % of the price of the new vehicle pays 70 % of them in the Egyptian pound.
Whereas, rehabilitation, development and modernization work included changing and renewing all the interior of the vehicle, including seats, floors, windows, curtains and air conditioning, in addition to painting the vehicle from abroad, in a distinctive way, with the aim of providing the highest levels of service to the passenger public.
The minister pointed out during his tour that the establishment of this factory embodies the extent of the attention that the Egyptian state pays to complete this important file, which is the file of resettlement of various industries and comes within the series of coordination carried out by the Ministry of Transport through communicating with a group of international companies to invest in the field of manufacturing rail transport in Egypt with the aim of meeting the needs of the local market and providing hard currency and transferring experience to Egyptian workers and exporting the surplus to African and Arab countries, and where this was done in this The coordination framework through (memoranda of understanding / agreements and conditions / contracts / contracts) with international companies to establish specialized factories in the various railway fields in addition to the Simaf Factory of the Arab Organization for Industrialization.
The Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development, Minister of Industry and Transport, also continued during his inspection tour by Porsche Com Abu Radia railway on an area of about 75 acres, which specializes in conducting different ages (public – medium Umrah) for all types of first and second air -conditioned passengers, the sacrifice of Egypt, the vehicles of power, rest houses, spinns and VIP, different ages of different types of vehicles in the workshop as well as follow -up. The developments of the plan to develop, rehabilitate and update 14 Spanish trains, each of which consists of (a buffet cart -4 first -class vehicle and 6 second -class vehicles) and where development works include rehabilitation, development and modernization of the vehicles in full (where all the interior of the vehicle is changed from seats, floors, windows, curtains and air conditioning in addition to painting the vehicle from the outside in a distinctive way) and where the rehabilitation, development and update of 12 trains is completed Spanish and entering the service in the Cairo / High Dam line to contribute to providing distinguished service levels for the passenger public.
The great importance of Rash Com Abu Radi as the technical insurance nerve for vehicles, as the team, the engineer of transportation, indicated that since he took over the transportation portfolio, a comprehensive plan has been developed to develop and update all elements of the railway system. The railway and the completion of the development of workshops through the continued implementation of the comprehensive plan to develop all railway workshops in all regions, (development of 33 existing workshops -the creation of 10 new workshops), and with regard to the human component, the team, the engineer of the Minister of Transport, explained that new standards and methodology have been set to select the human element scheduled to join workers in the railway sector through rehabilitation, training and testing at the Military College and Technical Institute of the Armed Forces The Higher Institute for Transport Technology in addition to implementing a plan to rehabilitate, train, educate and teach the current human element as well as external training on modern technology for modern technology mobile units.
Pointing out that these accurate criteria in selection and continuous training courses aim to implement the requirements of the current development phase, pointing out that it also falls within the framework of interest in the human element raising the morale of workers in creating an appropriate work environment and providing appropriate medical insurance for workers in the railway, continuous development and upgrading the medical system as well Comprehensive for the railway club and providing services at the highest level of the club members, in addition to providing appropriate summer resorts for railway workers and their families and proving the diligent while punishing the wrong according to the principle of reward and punishment.
The Minister of Transport affirmed that all railway workers must race to serve the passenger public and provide distinguished services, and that dealing with the passenger in all situations be fully respectful and that every employee assigned to him according to the job description card for each employee, indicating that there is great importance to the work of the incentives and purchases committees, which consist of a number of workers in the workshop, stressing the need to adhere to the official working hours and work to increase production The workshop, especially since the state provided all the capabilities to achieve the comprehensive development of the railway railways, pointing out that all trains that are rehabilitated and developed should be at the highest level.
On cooperation with the private sector, the team, Engineer of Transport, explained that the private sector is an essential pillar in implementing all the Ministry’s projects, whether the Egyptian or international private sector, in implementation, for the directives of the political leadership to maximize the participation of the private sector in implementing all transport projects to cooperate with the private sector in managing and operating some facilities and sectors in a way that contributes to raising the level of railway workers, increasing productivity and transporting goods in order to increase the authority’s resources and increase the national product, reviewing some projects that are cooperating with the private sector such as Contracting with the coalition of (Al -Grabli – Thar A. International) to manage and operate the merchandise trains in the rail network lines to maximize the transportation of goods via railways and provide goods transport service from the door to the door with its positive return at the national level and contract with the National Nutrition and Services Company “Abella Egypt” to manage and operate the sleep trains in the National Railways Authority of Egypt.
It is worth noting that the Abu Aboroua workshops are located on an area of about 75 acres and the workshop performs different ages (public – medium) for all types of first and second air -conditioned passengers, the Spanish and the vehicles long live Egypt, the vehicles of power, rest houses and spinns and VIP and the number of employees is 1449 (engineers, technicians, craftsmen, workers.) For construction and roads.
The Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development, Minister of Industry and Transport, also honored a number of trainers of trains and workers at the Railways Authority, who committed the commitment to regulations, laws and instructions and prevented risks and accidents that were about to happen and maintained the lives of a number of citizens and passengers and maintained the property of the commission. We will not allow the presence of a disgraceful, and all workers in the service of passengers must dedicate and provide the highest levels of service to them, as well as continue to maintain the railway facility owned by the people.
