LRT built by Chinese, Egyptian companies starts trial run in Egypt
STORY: LRT built by Chinese, Egyptian companies starts trial run in Egypt
DATELINE: July 4, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:51
LOCATION: Cairo
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the electrified light rail transit (LRT) system in Egypt
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese) LIAO LIQIANG, Chinese Ambassador to Egypt
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English) MOHAMED NOSIR, LRT train driver
STORYLINE:
Egypt's first electrified light rail transit (LRT) system jointly built by Chinese and Egyptian companies started its trial run on Sunday.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi took the first ride of the LRT at its inauguration ceremony.
The LRT project is the fruit of a 1.24-billion-U.S. dollar contract signed in August 2017 between Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) and the consortium of China Railway Engineering Corporation and AVIC International Holding Corporation (CREC-AVIC INTL Consortium).
The rail project connects the New Administrative Capital (NAC) being constructed east of Cairo with surrounding distant new ci
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- 2022/7/04 00:00:00
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