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Thursday, 3 February 2022

Last Night’s Talk Shows: Record exports + Natgas vehicle scheme

Our record 2021 export revenues dominated coverage on the airwaves last night. The USD 45.2 bn in export revenues — up 80% y-o-y — came on the back of a 56% rise in sales to the European Union and a 51% y-o-y increase exports the United States, head of the Egyptian Commercial Services Yehia El Wathiq Bellah said in a phone-in with Al Hayah Al Youm’s Mohamed Sherdy (watch, runtime: 24:32). Meanwhile, Misr Technology Services’ Khaled Nassef phoned in to Masaa DMC’s Ramy Radwan (watch, runtime: 13:57) to discuss the role of digital customs system Nafeza in helping monitor and boost the quality of cross-border trade. We have more on the story in today’s Economy section, above.

Some 13k dual-fuel cars have been delivered as part of the natgas transition scheme as of the end of January, the spokesperson for the Finance Ministry’s Automobile Financing Fund said in an interview with Al Hayah Al Youm last night (watch, runtime: 8:02). The government has received 100k requests for the natgas-run car swap, he added, but only 37k have so far been eligible. The scheme is expected to see 250k old cars swapped out with natgas-run cars by the end of 2023.

Also getting airtime: Price cuts to state-administered covid-19 tests were the subject of a phone-in from Health Ministry spokesperson Hossam Abdel Ghaffar to Yahduth Fi Misr (watch, runtime: 3:11). Masaa DMC also took note of the discounts (watch, runtime: 0:55).

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