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title: Line 3 of the Cairo Metro  extended with SYSTRA
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# Line 3 of the Cairo Metro  extended with SYSTRA

![Line 3 of the Cairo Metro  extended with SYSTRA](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/whatsapp-image-2024-05-20-at-19-20-00.jpeg)

The new section was inaugurated by the Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafa
Madbouly, and the Egyptian Minister of Transport, Kamel El Wazir, in the
presence of the Chairman of the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT), Dr Tarek
Gewaily, and SYSTRA’s Faiçal Chaabane, Malcolm Peart and Mohamed El Azizy.

Commissioning took place on May 20. Line 3, which links the heart of the
Egyptian capital to its western districts, will now be able to carry up to 1.5
million passengers per day. Five new stations have been added to the line, from
Kit Kat to Cairo University.

![SYSTRA](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/faical-915x1024.jpeg)

> The opening of this latest section is the final stage in a 7-year project to
> build phase 3 of line 3 of the Cairo Metro, a project which has involved a
> large number of SYSTRA Egypt teams as well as other Group entities, both in
> the design and construction phases. SYSTRA is the only engineering company to
> have worked on all three lines of the Cairo Metro, and we will be taking part
> in monitoring the modernisation of line 1. The Cairo Metro is an emblematic
> reference for SYSTRA in terms of the creation and development of
> [metro ](https://www.systra.com/en/markets/metro/)networks in one of the most
> densely populated capitals in the world, and we are proud to be part of it.
> Faiçal Chaabane, Senior Vice President Egypt & North Africa Executive Director

For line 3, SYSTRA was leader of a consortium with Egis Rail, ACE and EHAF,
working on behalf of NAT, the public entity in charge of transport projects in
the country.

The development of the Cairo Metro is part of the Egypt Vision 2030 programme,
which aims to increase the country’s supply of public transport and services.
Running east-west, line 3 is interconnected with the other Cairo Metro lines,
reaching Adly Mansour Central Interchange to the east and two branches to the
west, one to Cairo University (Phase 3C, connecting with line 2) and the other
to Rod al-Farag (Phase 3B, opening on 1 January 2024), after crossing the Nile
twice to Kit Kat station (Phase 3A, opening on 6 October 2022).

![the-picture-were-taken-during-implementation-of-the-phase-3-before-break-in-of-the-tbm-before-the-last-tunnel-mohamed-warad](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/the-picture-were-taken-during-implementation-of-the-phase-3-before-break-in-of-the-tbm-before-the-last-tunnel-mohamed-warad-scaled.jpeg)

_Placing of the TBM for Phase 3 of line 3Photo: Mohamed Warad_

### A lasting client relationship

In addition to the Cairo Metro, we have been managing and supervising the
construction of the new
[high-speed network ](https://www.systra.com/en/markets/high-speed-rail/)
currently under construction in the country since 2021 on behalf of NAT.

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