Wednesday 13/November/2024 – 03:38 PM
The engineer team confirmed Kamel Al-WazirDeputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development and Minister of Industry and Transport, said that transportation has become one of the most important elements of development in the world. Indeed, it is the main factor influencing economic and social growth, as all economic sectors depend on the infrastructure of various transportation systems, providing networks, connecting them, and facilitating movement procedures. Transporting goods and increasing trade exchange in a way that helps economic development and encourages the transfer of capital to invest in our Arab region.
The Minister added, during his participation in the meeting of the 37th session of the Council of Arab Ministers of Transport, that transport projects contribute to facilitating the movement of citizens in moving between our countries for all economic, commercial, tourism, cultural, recreational, religious and medical purposes, explaining that it goes without saying the great interest that our leaders give to the transport sector. As a measure of the progress and renaissance of nations and the well-being of society, which requires the continuous development and expansion of transportation plans through policy-making, setting strategies, and taking steps that contribute to the development of this vital sector.
Cooperation with sister Arab countries
Lieutenant General Kamel Al-Wazir pointed out that the Arab Republic of Egypt attaches great importance to strengthening cooperation with the sisterly Arab countries in all fields, especially the transport sector. At the Arab level, Egypt is implementing a plan for cooperation with brotherly Sudan to raise the efficiency of the current berth of Wadi Halfa Port to activate the role of the Nile Valley Authority. For river navigation to remain a bridge of cooperation and communication between the peoples of the two brotherly countries, as well as the railway connection project, which moved from the studies stage to the implementation stage, for the benefit of the two countries by increasing the movement of passengers and goods.
The minister added that the first line of the high-speed train project (Sokhna/Alexandria/Alamein/Matrouh) with a length of 660 km is currently being implemented near the Egyptian-Libyan border as a rapid transport system linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean for the first time, and it could be the nucleus of a larger strategic project to connect. Railways between the Arab countries in the east and west of the Arab countries and North Africa, and the second line (October – Aswan – Abu Simbel) with a length of 1,100 km is being implemented, which connects northern and southern Egypt, which in turn will also contribute to strengthening relations between Egypt, brotherly Sudan and the rest of the Arab countries.
