Chadian President Idriss DEBY honored on Monday Egypt's Arab Contractors company (AC) by the knight order - the highest national decoration - for its key role in development projects in the African state.

Arab Contractors Company Board Chairman Mohsen Salah said the company is the only Egyptian firm that copped this decoration from Chad.

He noted that the company has previously obtained the first-class Medal of Merit in recognition of its efforts in construction of two fast track tunnels, El-Orouba and El-Thawra tunnels, in Cairo.

Equatorial Guinea has granted AC the Medal of Merit in recognition of our efforts in the construction of infra-structure, housing, and hospitals projects, he said.

Ivory Cost has also bestowed its national honor for erecting Jacque Ville Bridge.

The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodoros II has also bestowed the firs-class holy patriarch order for the rehabilitation and restoration of Mar Gerges Church in Misr Al Qadima, with a total value EGP 45 million.

The Arab Contractors (AC) is one of the leading construction companies in the Middle East and Africa. Our 77,000 employees work in collaboration with our customers, partners, and suppliers in more than 29 countries. Our experience is widely diversified and covers a wide spectrum of the construction industry and its ancillary services including: Public buildings, bridges, roads, tunnels, airports, housing, water & sewage projects, wastewater treatment plants, power stations, dams, hospitals, sports buildings, restoration of monuments, irrigation, producing ready-mix concrete, shipbuilding, electromechanical projects, engineering consultancy, manufacturing and assembly of steel structures,…etc.

The social dimension is not absent from our philosophy and that’s why we have a sporting club and a medical center open for our employees as well as our fellow citizens.