Egypt to receive 30 more locomotives from General Electric on 20 August

Egypt will receive on Thursday 30 General Electric-built locomotives that make up the penultimate batch of rail engines purchased in a 2017 agreement. Evge Egypt is currently shipping the locomotives from the US to Alexandria. The final batch of 10 locomotives is set to be delivered next February. GE was contracted to supply and finance 110 new locomotives and refurbish 81 at a cost of a little over USD 600 mn.