ETIHAD Rail was granted final safety authorisation on December 10 by the United Arab Emirates Federal Transport Authority (FTA) for the 264km Shah - Habshan - Ruwais line, clearing the way for the start of commercial operations on the first phase of the country's national railway network.
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SULTAN Qaboos of Oman has issued a Royal Decree declaring the second phase of the country's rail project a public utility project which paves the way for acquisition of the land required for the 240km line from Haifait to Fahoud.
METRO Jeddah invites companies to pre-qualify for tenders to supply trains and equip and fit out the Saudi city's new metro for which civil works prequalification started in July.
THE United Arab Emirates Federal Transport Authority (FTA) granted Etihad Rail final safety authorisation on December 10 for the 264km Shah - Habshan - Ruwais line, clearing the way for the start of commercial operations on the first phase of the country's national railway network.
THE president of Saudi Railways Organisation (SRO) HE Mohammed bin Khalid Al-Suwaiket took delivery of four diesel passenger trains supplied by CAF from the Spanish ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mr Joaquin Perez at a ceremony in Dammam on December 7.
ISRAEL Railways (IR) announced on December 6 that it has selected Sociedad Española de Montajes Industriales (Semi), Spain, as preferred bidder for a design-build-maintain contract for the country's electrification programme.
ALL three consortia building the six-line metro in the Saudi capital Riyadh have selected Pfaff-Silberblau, Germany, to supply train lifting equipment for installation in each of their new maintenance workshops.
WABTEC has secured a $US 26m order to supply electronically-controlled pneumatic (ECP) braking equipment and components for the 1186 tanks wagons that The Greenbrier Companies is supplying to Saudi Railway Company (SAR).
PRODUCTION has started at Alstom's plant in Katowice, Poland, of the fleet of 69 Metropolis trains which it is building as part of the Fast consortium for ArRiyadh Development Authority (ADA) for the new Riyadh metro.
