Cairo: As of Thursday, Egypt has partially higher exercise price ticket costs in an effort to increase the budget for the country’s aging rail service.
Fares for 38 new air-conditioned trains, which entered service on Friday, have increased by 25%, according to media reports. The trains, imported from Russia, run other routes in the country of about one hundred million inhabitants.
The increase came into force on the eve of the Eid Al Adha festival, to which many Egyptians travel to their places of origin to be reunited with their families.
“Construction is intended to cover the operational price and wages component of the National Airway Authority,” said Transportation Minister Kamel Al Wazir.
The state agency’s annual expenditure reached 7.5 billion Egyptian pounds (1.7 billion dirhams) last year to 3 billion LE, according to the minister.
“The accumulated value will be limited to new trains. There will be no increase in the value of other trains already in service across the country,” he added. A total of 900 trains from other categories come and go between the major cities of Egypt.
Al Wazir, an army exonyst, took over as shipping minister in February 2019, following a fatal turn of fate at Cairo’s main exercise station.
Since then, it has sought to reorganize the country’s railway and update the decrepit trains.
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