French companies to manage Algiers Metro

Algerian Minister of Transport, Ammar Tou Sunday said first batch of Algiers Metro’ wagons will be imported from a Spanish company next October.

• A French company will be in charge of conducting Algiers Metro, according to the minister who refused to say when works would be ended.  The Metro is supposed to open its gates for Algerians in the end of the current year.
• Algerian minister of transportation added that “the process of conducting” Algier Metro will be supervised by experts and engineers. “It is the fourth in world which will be operated according to automatic conducting as it is in New York, Paris and Barcelona”.