Egypt has started implementing the country's first high-speed train project from Ain Sukhna on the Red Sea coast to Marsa Matruh on the Mediterranean coast, with a length of 660 km, at a cost of 9 billion dollars.
The implementation work of the project was monitored, which starts from Ain Sukhna on the Red Sea coast, starting parallel to the Hurghada road to Cairo, in the middle of the desert areas and mountains, passing through the New Administrative Capital and arriving at The mountains that precede the suburb of Helwan, heading to the city of October and from there to Alexandria, Burj Al Arab and Al Alamein until it reaches the Matrouh governorate in the west of the country, according to the seventh day.
The work of preparing the path and digging the mountains in the distance from Helwan and May 15th to the Administrative Capital began, so that the project path ended with its last station inside Ain Sukhna port, where the participating contracting companies resort In the implementation of the project to use explosives to detonate the mountains that conflict with the track of the first express train project, where the track was divided into sectors and distributed to Egyptian contracting companies.
Egyptian contracting companies are carrying out works to prepare the track and the road on which the express train will run, in parallel with the start of the construction of the stations located in the track, after the completion of the entire route determination and lifting works. The project is estimated to cost nearly $9 billion, while the international company Siemens will implement the signaling and communication systems in the project and supply the trains that will work on it after its implementation.
