Cairo - Alexandria Trade Logistics Development Project (CATLDP)

Objective

The development objective of Cairo Alexandria Trade Logistics Development Project for Egypt is to improve the performance and support the decarbonization of the logistics and transport sectors in the Alexandria‐6th October‐Greater Cairo Area railway corridor. This project has two components. (i) The first component, Railway Sector Reform, Project Delivery, Stakeholder Engagement, Women’s Economic Empowerment, and Private Sector Participation, has the following sub-components: (i) Railway sector reform; (ii) 2 Project‐delivery activities; (iii) Promotion of Women’s Employment and Stakeholder Engagement; (iv) Enabling private capital mobilization (PCM) for the railway sector; and (v) Decarbonization study. 2) The second component, Track extension, railway signaling modernization, and selected track upgrades to create a railway bypass around the Greater Cairo Area, has the following sub-components: (i) Greenfield Link; (ii) Marazeek–Wahat Section Upgrade; (iii) El Bashteel‐Itay El Baroud Section; and (iv) El Itihad‐Tafaroa Section."" -- WBG website ""The Bank estimates the project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 965,000 tons over 30 years."" -- Logistics Update Africa website"

Description

The Government of Egypt with support from the World Bank will solve the current infrastructure bottleneck by implementing the railway bypass to the Cairo Railway Hub. The railway bypass includes constructing a 67.07 km (excluding curves and total of 67.32km including curves) missing link, associated track and signaling and upgrading track signaling in the other sections to achieve an operational bypass as shown below. The CATLDP includes two components. Component 1 includes: Railway Sector Reform, Project Delivery, Stakeholder Engagement, Women’s Economic Empowerment and Private Sector Participation in the railway sector activities. Component 2 is relevant to the construction of a new line and creation of parallel tracks on segments of the existing line as well as upgrades of existing tracks and modernization of signaling."" "

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