President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, toured the Adly Mansour central interchange station for public transportation on Monday, on the sidelines of the French leader’s official visit to Egypt, according to the Egyptian Presidency.

Both leaders inspected the Adly Mansour station and were briefed on its facilities and services before touring Cairo Metro’s third line.

The 1.1 million square metre Adly Mansour station includes seven transport modes; the Cairo-Suez Railway Line, Cairo Metro’s third line, the Light Rail Trail (LRT), the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), and the three-line SuperJet buses.

The station, the largest in the Middle East, is named after Egypt’s former interim president Adly Mansour (2013-2014), featuring a full-service transportation complex and a commercial investment zone.

In 2022, Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) entered a 15-year, €1 billion agreement with France's Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP Dev), the operator of Paris Metro, to oversee the management of Cairo Metro third line.

During the tour, President El-Sisi commended the Egyptian-French cooperation in the field of transportation.

He praised French companies’ role in implementing transportation-related projects in Egypt, particularly in Greater Cairo, which contributed to a leap in mass transit routes.

Additionally, El-Sisi affirmed Egypt’s keenness to localize transportation-related industries and increase the percentage of local components in ongoing projects.

For his part, the French president commended the modernized and advanced level of the transportation sector in Egypt, praising the development of infrastructure and transportation means, affirming France's willingness to participate in future development projects in the country.

Earlier Monday, El-Sisi and Macron witnessed the signing of an agreement between both countries to implement a roadmap of Cairo Metro’s sixth line.