Egypt’s high-speed rail undertaking has chosen British Metal to produce the observe for a piece of the road connecting Alexandria to the Mediterranean coast, the Gulf of Suez, and the Pink Sea.
The multi-million-pound contract will see the Scunthorpe-based firm ship 9,500t of observe to the port of Alexandria for the 660km part of the community, which can carry passengers and freight trains as much as 250kmph because the nation’s first absolutely electrified mainline and freight community.
Jérôme Bonef, British Metal’s business supervisor of rail exports, stated: “We’re delighted British Metal has been awarded this contract and to be concerned in such a transformational undertaking for Egypt, which can carry important enhancements to the transport community.
“The British Metal rail enterprise prides itself on offering worth options to our clients, being simple to commerce with while offering on-time deliveries with world-leading high quality.”
The road is being constructed by a three way partnership from Orascum Development and Arab Contractors, whereas the design, commissioning and operation might be dealt with by the nation’s Nationwide Authority for Tunnels (NAT).
In keeping with British Metal, it is going to ship two shipments of its 60E1 rail, in grade R260, to the Port of Alexandria in April and June 2024 which might be used to increase the road from Alexandria by way of El Alamein to the Mediterranean coast in north-west Egypt and Suez and the Pink Sea within the east.
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The 660km line is a part of a wider undertaking to carry high-speed rail to Egypt and is being constructed alongside a 1,100km line between Cairo and Abu Simbel, and a 225km hyperlink between Luxor and Hurghada, with Siemens Mobility additionally concerned in development.
In keeping with NAT, the primary part of the undertaking will run between Ain Sokhna within the east and Marsa Matrouh within the north, by way of El Alamein.
British Metal is owned by China’s Jingye Group, and is unrelated to the nationalised British Metal Company. Scunthorpe’s steelworks have been owned by numerous companies for the reason that blast furnaces within the city have been consolidated in 1912.
