Egypt's first monorail project 40 percent complete

Egypt’s first monorail is more than 40 percent complete, the construction companies under-taking the project said on Monday. The six-kilometre long monorail is being carried out by two of Egypt’s major construction companies, the Arab Contractors and Orascom Construction, as part of the fourth construction phase of the third Cairo metro line. Work started in November 2017 and is set to be completed by the end of 2018, according to the companies. The overground line extends from Cairo's Heliopolis Hisham Barakat station to Adly Mansour station in 10 Ramadan city, passing through the Hikestep, Kebaa and Omar Ibn Al-Khattab stations.