Wabtec delivers 20 train engines to Egypt

CAIRO – 30 July 2023: Minister of Transport Kamel al-Wazir declared Sunday that 20 train engines supplied by Wabtec had arrived in the Port of Alexandria within a deal that consists of 100 units.

Twenty others had been delivered earlier by Wabtec within a plan to introduce 260 new train engines on Egypt's railways. In that framework, the country purchased from General Electric 110 trains engines at a cost of $602.05 million. They were all delivered by the end of 2021, and entered service.

The contract with General Electric also consisted of the rehabilitation of 81 others of the current fleet at Tebin Workshop in Cairo, as well as the supply of spare parts and maintenance of 181 engines over 15 years at a cost of $575 million. That is in addition to offering technical support embodied in training 30 engineers and 245 technicians.