Under the patronage of Dr. Jan Henri Hanna, President of Beni Suef Technological University, a delegation from the university headed by Dr. Ali Abdel Tawab, Dean of the Egyptian-Korean Faculty of Technological Industry and Energy, and a number of the faculty teaching and supporting staff participated in the activities of the fifth session of the international exhibition and conference for smart transportation, infrastructure and logistics for the Middle East and Africa ‘TransMEA2023’, in the presence of a number of ministers, the Governor of Cairo, the Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, the Chairman of the Suez Canal Economic Authority, the Chairman of the Arab Organization for Industrialization, in addition to officials of the Ministry of Transport. The activities of the fifth session will be held under the slogan “Localization of the transportation industry in Egypt.” The exhibition enjoys wide global participation from major international specialized companies, with 350 companies from about 50 countries participating this year. The conference is also attended by a large number of Arab and African ministers of transport, and ambassadors of different countries, as well as the chairmen of major international companies specialized in the field of transportation, as their number reaches 33 major international companies.
The opening activities and international exhibition and conference began when Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, and Lieutenant General Kamel Al-Wazir, Minister of Transport, and a number of attendees inspected a number of different means of transportation, including those related to new electric traction projects, where he inspected the units of the first regional train from the high-speed electric train network, as well as Units of the light electric train, monorail, and metro. The Prime Minister also inspected a number of models of localization of railway industries, including railway goods transport vehicles, as well as a model of electronic sliders and railway switches, in addition to inspecting a number of public transportation means which are modern and environmentally friendlyS, such as the BRT bus, the capital’s buses, the capital’s taxi, and the superjet buses, in addition to the “Tahya Misr” rubber and fiberglass marine launch intended for insurance purposes.
The Prime Minister then headed to the Ministry of Transport’s pavilion at the exhibition, where the chairmen of the National Tunnels Authority, the National Railways Authority of Egypt, the General Authority for Roads and Bridges, the Maritime Transport Sector, and the General Authority for Land and Dry Ports gave a presentation on the most important projects being implemented and the plan for localization of Industry.
Dr. Mostafa Madbouly witnessed the giving of permission to begin trial operation for a number of Ministry of Transport projects and opening of a number of other projects. Permission was given for the trial operation of the third and final phase of the third line. Permission was also given for the trial operation of the monorail east of the Nile (Nasr City/New Administrative Capital). ) at Field Marshal Tantawi Station, within the framework of implementing the monorail project east and west of the Nile, as they are a means of green, sustainable, environmentally friendly public transportation and one of the most important features of the new republic, whose foundations Swere laid by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
Permission was also given to operate the command and control center for the Beni Suef/Asyut line from the Minya Tower, and the concrete flanges factory of the Egyptian Company for the Construction and Maintenance of Transport and Airport Facilities affiliated with the Ministry of Transport was also operated and opened, in order to produce flanges for the company’s high-speed electric train network with investments amounting to about 500 million pounds.
