ETIHAD Rail expects operations to begin on its inaugural UAE railway project, the 266km line from Shan and Habshan to Ruwais, by the end of the year with construction almost complete and testing now underway.
Richard Bowker, senior advisor at EC Harris and former CEO of Etihad Rail, UAE, tells Keith Barrow how Gulf States are rising to the challenge of building an interoperable regional network from the ground up.
THE first two of seven locomotives ordered by Etihad Rail from EMD arrived today at Mussafah Port in the United Arab Emirates. The locomotives follow Etihad Rail's first covered hopper wagons supplied by CSR, China, which arrived in December 2012.
ETIHAD Rail, the developer and future operator of the United Arab Emirates' railway network, has secured a $US 1.28bn loan to finance Stage One of its inaugural project to build the 264km dedicated freight route from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais.
THE first batch out of 240 wagons being supplied by CSR, China, to Etihad Rail has arrived in Abu Dhabi's port of Mina Zayed.
ETIHAD Rail, the developer of the UAE's planned 1200km national rail network, has issued invitations to tender for the first three contracts for the second phase of the project.
ETIHAD Rail chairman HE Nasser Al Sowaidi and HE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, chairman of DP World, have signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of an intermodal rail terminal at Jebel Ali port in the United Arab Emirates.
ETIHAD Rail has revealed the livery for the fleet of seven locomotives on order from Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD).
Contracts have been awarded and construction is underway on the United Arab Emirates' inaugural railway line. Kevin Smith looks at the current state of play for the country's planned 1200km network.