Armed Forces cancel construction of two railway tunnels under Suez Canal

The Armed Forces have scrapped a project that would have seen the construction of two railway tunnels under the Suez Canal due to the rising cost of digging the tunnels, Kamel El Wazeer, the head of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority, told Al Mal. According to El Wazeer, each kilometer dug for the tunnels would cost approximately EGP 1 bn, bringing the total cost to more than EGP 8 bn. The authority is now studying, with preliminary approval from President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, the possibility of salvaging an abandoned railway bridge on top of the old Suez Canal and moving it away from the canal altogether, which would reduce the cost of the project.