Tuesday 08 April/2025 – 11:49 AM
The team, the engineer of Kamel, the Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development, the Minister of Industry and Transport, and in the presence of Dr. Rania Al -Mashat, Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation, witnessed the signing of the executive agreement for the credit facilities agreement signed between Egypt and the French Development Agency for the project of establishing the Rubiki railway/ tenth of Ramadan/ Belbeis.
Transport expects the credit facilities agreement with the French Agency for the Rubiki Railways project – the tenth – Belbeis
The agreement was signed by Erik Lombard, Minister of Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, and Engineer Mohamed Amer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Egypt Railways and Remy Rio, Director General of the French Development Agency and where the value of the credit facilities for the project is 70 million euros, from the total value of the project of 215 million euros, which is divided into (the foreign component of the project 105 million euros AFD AFD Agency for 70 million euros + the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development EBRD – the local component of the project, equivalent to approximately 110 million euros).
The team is the engineer of Kamel Al -Wazir, Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development, Minister of Industry and Transport, the importance of this 63.5 -km project, which will link the Rubiki and Bilbeis station through the city of Tenth of Ramadan and its dry port. The line includes 7 stations (Al -Rubiki, Industrial Zone 1, Industrial District 2, kilo 14, and exchange of tenth of Ramadan with the LRT line that connects Cairo to the new capital, the tenth port of Ramadan and Bilbeis)
Attacked the project, includes the construction of a line of about 18.5 km to connect a railway (Cairo / Rubiki / Suez) in the dry port and the logistical area in the tenth of Ramadan. The work of the stations and bridges is currently being implemented in addition to the construction of a line with a length of about 45 km that connects the dry port and the logistical area with a railway (Benha / Zagazig / Ismailia / Port Said) in Belbeis Station, adding that the project is that the project is It will contribute to linking the dry port and the logistical area currently being implemented with the tenth of Ramadan City to the railways network, and therefore the dry port will be linked to the seaports, whether heat and literary ports on the Red Sea or Port Said, Damietta, Alexandria and Dekhela on the Mediterranean, which will lead to maximizing the movement of goods between these ports and the main industrial zone in the tenth of Ramadan, where the industrial zone is considered In the tenth of Ramadan City, the largest castle of industry in Egypt and the Middle East in terms of the type and size of the industries, and where the city includes approximately 2996 factories with a total investment of 84 billion pounds with annual production of 162 billion pounds, and provides 500 thousand job opportunities. The number of factories under construction is 1028 factories with a capital of 3 billion pounds and an annual estimated annual production value 8 billion pounds and provides 87 thousand jobs.
He pointed out that the line will be operated to serve passengers and goods to facilitate the movement of citizens working in the industrial zone in the tenth of Ramadan City, as about 90% of workers in the city’s industrial zone are coming from the city of Belbeis and are currently independent of private and unsafe transportation means from Belbeis to the tenth of Ramadan.
The creation and operation of the line will also reduce traffic congestion resulting from operating cargo trucks as well as transportation buses for workers and reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions resulting from trucks and buses as well The economic and achieves a material return for all these projects, as well as facilitating the transportation of goods, especially containers from seaports to the dry port of the tenth of Ramadan to maximize indirect transit and eliminate the phenomenon of the accumulation of goods in the ports and increase inflation in prices to offer importers to impose financial fines on their goods in addition to serving the passengers of Sharkia Governorate (Belbeis City) and transporting them to the new administrative capital and Greater Cairo by exchanging service with LRT
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The minister pointed out that the project is one of the most important projects of the Nawafi+ program (the sustainable transportation axis), which is funded by a group of banks and international institutions (the French Development Agency – the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – the European Investment Bank), noting that the work of the stations and bridges of the project is currently being implemented by the Egyptian national companies and Egyptian consultant and the implementation rate has reached the rate of implementation
Bridges work is 80% and bridges 65%
The team also witnessed the engineer/Kamel Al -Wazir, Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development, Minister of Industry and Transport, signing the technical support grant agreement for the project, as it was signed by Dr. Rania Al -Mashat, Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation and Mr.
Erik Lombard, Minister of Economy, Finance, Industrial and Seamatic Sovereignty and Mr. Remy Rio, Director General
