$3BN IRAQI RAILWAY PROJECT
Posted on 01 February 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
The Iraqi transport ministry is to invite foreign companies to build a $US3 billion rail network around Baghdad. It intends to revive a 1980s plan by an Italian company to build a loop line around the city, and construct two principal passenger stations.
Head of the state railway’s projects department Hilal al-Quraishi, says the work will take four years: “It is a huge project. It will connect all the lines heading to the provinces and neighbouring countries. Freight trains will not enter Baghdad itself but load and unload a short distance south of the capital at a dry port.”
Two main passenger stations will be built as part of the project, one in the west and one in the east of Baghdad.
The planned capacity of the network will be 23 million passengers per year and 46 million tonnes of freight.
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