Egypt to invest $3.1bn to revamp national railway network

Egypt plans to invest a total of $3.1 billion for the revamp of its national railway network over the next five years,...

In pictures: Riyadh Metro carriages roll off production line at Alstom plant

Riyadh Metro carriages on track at Alstom plant in Poland

In November 2015, French multinational rail transport solutions provider Alstom announced that it had begun production on the trains from the Riyadh...

Saudi rail plan to be updated after $750m deal

Saudi Railways Organisation (SRO) has signed a six-month contract worth $757,161 with Dornier Consulting to update the Saudi Railways Master Plan (SRMP) project,...

Etihad Rail, Dubai’s RTA sign rail agreement

Etihad Rail, developer and operator of the UAE’s national railway network, has signed a strategic agreement with Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority...

Rail: Egypt’s fast track to recovery

Four years after a populist uprising that tore down the Hosni Mubarak regime and two years on from the ill-fated reign of...

Exova wins $5.6m Doha Metro testing contracts

The London-listed scientific-testing firm Exova Group has won contracts worth over £3.7m ($5.6m) to test key infrastructure on the Doha Metro project,...

GIBCA to send aggregates via rail

Etihad Rail has signed an MOU with a UAE quarry to provide for transportation of aggregates and raw materials through-out the country,...

12 firms to be qualified by August 31 for Kuwait national rail project

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Construction work on Oman national rail project to start in 2015 Q1

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