EGYPT: The National Authority for Tunnels has reached an agreement for Alstom to supply and maintain 55 Metropolis trainsets for Cairo Metro Line 1, and has awarded CAF and Mitsubishi a contract to refurbish 23 existing trains. Alstom’s €876m contract is expected to come into force in Q4 2021-22; it will be financed by the French government under an agreement signed by Egypt’s Minister of Transport Kamel El-Wazir and France’s Minister of the Economy, Finance & Recovery Bruno Le Maire in June. The vehicles will be designed and manufactured at Alstom’s Petite-Forêt plant in Valenciennes, with Le Creusot supplying the bogies and traction motors, Villeurbanne the passenger information systems and Toulouse responsible for electrical engineering.