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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/18/2022 6:38:37 PM
Several roads will be closed and traffic will be diverted in the New Cairo district for two months to allow for construction work on the Cairo Monorail project, the General Administration of Cairo Traffic announced Sunday.
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World
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International
9/18/2022 11:04:12 AM
A powerful typhoon approaching southern Japan pounded the region with strong winds and heavy rain Sunday, causing blackouts, paralyzing ground and air transportation and prompting the evacuation of thousands of people.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/15/2022 5:00:24 PM
The Ministry of Transport announced on Thursday lowering the price of light rail transit (LRT) tickets by 30-40 percent starting 17 September amid the advent of the new school year and preparations of various ministries to move to the New Administrative Capital .
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/11/2022 1:52:48 PM
The Egyptian cabinet's Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC) has recently affirmed that transitioning the global vehicle fleet to zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) technologies is crucial to decarbonising road transport and meeting climate goals.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/7/2022 1:35:17 PM
An Egyptian marine ship bound for France rescued 60 migrants stranded on a sinking boat in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, according to a statement released by the Egyptian Holding Company for Maritime and Land Transport (HCMLT) on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/4/2022 6:30:36 PM
Egypt is set to officially open the first line of its three-line high-speed train network – the country's first-ever electric railway – on 7 November, a statement by the Ministry of Transport said on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Tourism
8/31/2022 4:52:53 PM
The Ministry of Transport is set to launch on Thursday its first-ever online platform to regulate the entry of yacht trips in the country as part of a newly developed strategy to leverage the country’s unique strategic geographical location and long coastal lines.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/30/2022 3:01:00 PM
In the battle for public opinion between the UK government and workers, one man has been standing out.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/24/2022 6:36:31 PM
Egypt’s Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly oversaw on Wednesday the signing of a contract with South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem to locally manufacture and import 320 new air-conditioned metro carriages.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/24/2022 5:31:38 PM
The Egyptian Ministry of Transportation has been building the Bashteel Railway Station in Giza governorate since 2020, with the aim of serving passengers travelling to and from Upper Egypt.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/21/2022 6:08:44 PM
Minister of Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir ordered on Sunday speeding up the transformation of the ministry's Railway Goods Transport Sector into a multimodal transport company independent of the Egyptian Railway Authority (ERA).
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/20/2022 5:44:11 PM
Egypt's Ministry of Transport has asserted that the stations of the country's first monorail, which is currently under construction, and other modern mass transit means will not be named after businessmen in return for shouldering the construction costs but rather after entities, a statement said on Saturday.
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World
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International
8/19/2022 2:56:01 PM
Public transport workers in London held fresh strikes Friday over pay and conditions, cutting services on almost all underground and overground rail lines that link up the UK capital.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/17/2022 10:22:30 PM
Some of the stations of Egypt’s first monorail and light rail train “LRT” will be named after residential compounds, malls, and universities for 6 million Euros, Minister of Transportation Kamel El-Wazir revealed on Tuesday as he shared more details on how Egypt’s government deals with the costs of megaprojects.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/16/2022 2:03:33 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Transport – represented by the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) – has signed a preliminary agreement with a consortium of German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the Egyptian private-sector company El-Sewedi Electric on the management and operation of the country's first high-speed electric train network.
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World
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Africa
8/14/2022 5:12:52 PM
The first UN-chartered vessel set to transport grain from Ukraine under a deal to relieve a global food crisis was loaded with 23,000 tonnes of wheat on Sunday and is ready to depart, Kyiv announced.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
8/12/2022 1:13:26 PM
Expectations were raised Friday that the first U.N. grain transport ship could soon be leaving Ukraine for Africa, while more Russian shelling struck the east of the country, shifting the war between hope and despair on Friday.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
8/10/2022 7:37:49 PM
Spain has launched a pilot project to import grain from Ukraine by train to explore the possibility of using rail transport while maritime routes are blocked or restricted by war.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
8/9/2022 11:55:01 PM
Ukraine has transported at least 3,000 people from the battled-scarred eastern region of Donetsk since it initiated mandatory evacuations ahead of gruelling winter months, Kyiv said Tuesday.
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Business
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Economy
8/4/2022 10:22:33 PM
Egypt enjoyed a significant increase in revenue from tourism and transport receipts as well as a modest increase from workers’ remittances through the third quarter of the previous fiscal year, according to data released by the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) on Thursday.
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