GCC ambitious plans to build a railway

14/01/2011
GCC ambitious plans to build a railway
Dubai - Reuters: Gulf countries plan to spend more than $ 100 billion railway projects across the region as it seeks to overcome the weakness of public transport networks and the increasing numbers of the population.

States are pushing for the six Gulf Cooperation Council to create a form similar to the system of high-speed railway in Europe with plans to extend the network, which extends about 1940 kilometers and linking it to Yemen by the year 2017
Saudi Arabia is spending $ 25 billion
Saudi Arabia is spending about $ 25 billion on its network of railways, adding 3900 km of tracks in three major projects.

The Saudi land bridge project a line of trains along the 950 km link between the capital Riyadh and the port of Jeddah on the Red Sea, and also a line length of 115 km between the industrial city of Jubail and Dammam on the Gulf coast oil.

The second project is a project north - south link between Riyadh and modern Mara Qassim, Hail, Jouf with branches to the Ras Al-Zour and Jubail to mine bauxite and phosphate, and will use the line mainly for the transfer of minerals, but the transfer of passengers and goods in general, also comes within the plan.

The third project is a project that connects the Two Holy Mecca and Medina, Jeddah on the Red Sea, a key entry point for millions of pilgrims, which will ease traffic congestion on the roads.

Participating group, "Deutsche Bahn" German transport and "Ostaldi" Italian, "Atkins" British unions in the six companies that bid for the construction of four stations on the rail line, which extends for a distance of 450 km.

The company said China Railway Construction Corp. in November it expects to lose about 4.15 billion yuan (623 million dollars) in the Metro project, which convey feelings of pilgrims.
Projects in the UAE
In the United Arab Emirates would be planned Union Railway Company to build rail project across the country $ 11 billion dollars and extends 1500 km and is expected to start the first phase by 2017.

The project will be built in phases and eventually will link project between the UAE and Saudi Arabia through the city Jawevat in the West and the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman through the city of Al Ain in the east.

Qatar and implement a network that links between the center of production of oil and gas in the Ras Laffan refinery in the north and south Masaeed in line with the highway between the New Doha International Airport and downtown.Construction and will be extended until 2026 and includes the trains to transport passengers and goods for the metro line.

Informed sources said in June (June) The bridge project linking Qatar and Bahrain would cost three billion dollars has been suspended amid rising cost and increasing political tension.

It was planned to play this project linking Qatar gas exporting and the Kingdom of Bahrain a key role in improving the coherence of infrastructure in the GCC countries.

Qatar also wants to build a bridge linking it with its neighbor Saudi Arabia through the long sea bridge 40 kilometers to Bahrain.
البحرين Bahrain
Bahrain has said it will consider in 2009 a project for a railway worth eight billion dollars, extends 184 km includes a variety of rail systems. . But these investments are part of plans to link between Bahrain and Qatar bridge project was suspended due to political tensions between the two countries.
سلطنة عُمان Sultanate of Oman
The project will link the railway, which extends 500 km meters in Amman between the ports and airports and free zones is expected to generate revenues of approximately $ 250 million in the first year of operation, according to what he said a finance ministry official.

It is expected to be completed in 2017 and the government plans to establish construction projects in three phases.

And will build a iron to transport passengers and goods, which will form part of a network linking regional and is also considering extensions in the capital, Muscat, across the Metro system.

And firms have shown a global transport and railways, such as "blocks" and "S to C F" and "China Railway" and "Hyundai" interested in bidding to qualify to win contracts.
الكويت Kuwait
Kuwait said in 2008 that it plans to establish a network of rail lines will cost $ 11 billion will include a system of Metro in the capital.

The Kuwaiti Union for Land Transport to the iron line will extend 250 kilometers from the northern border with Iraq to Saudi Arabia in the south, with extensions to the airport.

Kuwait plans to establish a network of Metro in the capital of the four lines of a total length of 171-km and a cost of $1.3 billion dinars. It was originally scheduled to begin construction in 2009 and completed in 2017.
اليمن Yemen
And Yemen announced last year that he would launch a project of the railway will cost $ 3.5 billion as part of plans to develop the infrastructure in violence-torn country.

And extends the network that will carry passengers and cargo for a distance of 2500 kilometers of border with Saudi Arabia, along the Yemeni coast, passing the main port of Aden to the Sultanate of Oman, where she will meet the network that links between the countries of the six Gulf Cooperation Council.

The government said the tenders for the main coastal line, which runs the length of 2000 km began in July (July 2010), and it was in talks with several companies to build a railway track rail.
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