Saudi Arabia Opens Tender for Railway Project

According to anba: The Public Investment Fund of the Saudi Ministry of Finance will finance the construction of the country’s largest railway project, the North-South Railway, with 2,400 kilometres of extension. To that extent, the Saudi government is opening a tender for national and international companies interested in participating in the construction of the project, which should start in 2010. Companies should submit their bids to the Public Investment Fund by April 14. The tender is open to companies operating as real estate developers, suppliers and manufacturers of locomotives and railway cars, service providers and railway line operators, in addition to companies specialising in signalling, control, and communication systems. “Many Brazilian companies have experience in these fields. This is a good opportunity for them to participate,” said Abdullah Alowaifeer, business manager at the Saudi Arabian Embassy to Bras?lia (the Brazilian capital). The North- south Railway Project consist of the construction of two main lines, one going from northern Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, to the Al Haditha province, near the Jordanian border; and the second going from central Riyadh to the bauxite mine in Az Zabirah, in the east of the country.

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