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