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Saudi Arabia plans freight rail corridor

An aerial image of Dammam, a port city in east Saudi Arabia (Attila Jandi/Dreamstime)
The local subsidiaries of Spain’s OHLA Group and Egypt’s Hassan Allam Holding have won a contract from the state-run Saudi Railway Company to build a 22.7km single-track freight railway in the eastern Saudi Arabian port city of Dammam.

Called the Dammam 2nd Industrial City Railway Connection Project, it will create a transport link from the Kingdom’s key industrial zones to the Arabian Gulf.

The team’s scope of work includes building a 265m bridge across a highway, a 188m bridge spanning the Armco pipeline corridor, plus integrated signalling and integration with Saudi Arabia’s national rail network.

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