February 25, 2018

Minister of Transport inspecting the Works of Cairo Metro Line 3 - Phase 4B

The Minister of Transport, accompanied by Head of the Roads and Bridges Authority, and Chairman of the National Authority for Tunnels, inspected the work of Cairo Metro Line 3 – Phase 4b, which consists of 6 overground stations on Gisr El Suez Street, Next to the El Salam station. CML3 project aims to connect East and West Cairo, exchange service with the first and second lines through the two stations Gamal Abdel Nasser and Attaba and link with the New Administrative Capital and the new cities adjacent to it and reduce the overground traffic of other means of transport.

The project is to meet the transport condensed requirements on the third line and the study of transportation carried out for the Greater Cairo Region. CML3 directions are from Imbaba and El Mohandseen in the West of the Nile, crossing under the River Nile to Zamalek Island and then to Attaba Square - Abbasiyah to reach Cairo International Airport.  CML3- Phase 4B ends with the exchange station Adly Mansour, which connects with the electric train LRT, which starts from the El Salam City crossing El Shorouk, Badr and Robiki, to branch out one linking with the new administrative capital and the other towards the direction of 10th of Ramadan City. It is the First Egyptian Joint Venture between the Arab Contractors Company(JV Leader)and Orascom for Construction Company (Partner in the JV) that will execute CML3 – PHASE 4B to benefit from the acquired experiences through the implementation of the metro and reduce the dependence on foreign expertise. Signals, Communications, High Voltage Station and electromechanical equipment will be executed by French companies as subcontractors under the full supervision of the Egyptian JV. It is noteworthy that the execution rate status has reached 31% of the total volume of works on a total area of ??65 feddans and includes 31 buildings varied between concrete buildings and steel structures which is divided into heavy overhaul workshop building, light overhaul workshop and other service buildings; the amount of the ordinary and concrete mix is up to 220000 m? and rebar 22300 tons and precast beams numbers is more than 600 km with average length 30m, monopiles  with diameter 204m and length up to 40m to avoid obstacles and facilities at the work site; and using of slip forms  for easy casting from high heights, fast implementation, facilitate movement under the slip forms and avoid obstructing the traffic.

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