VOL. XXXIX

No. 45

5-August-1996

EGYPT

Krupp Awarded $75Mn Contract For Rail/Road Bridge Across The Suez Canal

The Egyptian Government has signed a contract - worth $75mn - with a consortium led by the German firm Krupp Stahlbau Hannover/Fer Technik, together with Besix of Belgium and Orascom of Egypt, for the construction of a combined rail/road 600-ms. bridge across the Suez Canal. The bridge will be built at al-Firdan "Verdun" (the site of an earlier bridge also constructed by Krupp...