Spate of rail projects to flood Middle East in next two years

摘要

Engineers in the Middle East are eyeing up $88bn (￡ 55bn) of rail projects set to be built in the region in the next 10 years. The glut of projects is largely being driven by the desire of countries in the region to emulate the success of the Dubai Metro, which carried a record 600,000 passengers on New Year's Eve -a three-fold increase on the daily average. Saudi Arabia has plans for ￡16bn of rail work, Qatar ￡14.bn, the United Arab Emirates ￡13bn, Kuwait ￡6bn and Oman ￡5bn.