About 21 out of 37 firms consultative have been qualified after competing for a Yemeni tender for the first phase of implementing a railroad project. The first phase includes preparing the documents of the tender for the project, contract system and negotiations with an investor to implement the project.
According to the Transport Ministry the firms were American, French, Canadian, Lebanese, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Italian, Swiss, German, Turkish and Australian.
The economic and financial studies of the project's four components based on the agreement with the ESCWA that estimated the total cost of the project at $ 3.6 billion were finalized, a report by the ministry noted.
The first axis of the project will link Yemen to Saudi Arabia and will be 729 km at a cost of about $ 1.06 billion and the second will connect Yemen with Oman and will be 766 km at a cost of $ 1.1 billion.
The third axis will connect Yemen's business capital of Aden with the Balhaf in Shabwa province and will be 386 km at a cost of $ 600 million and the fourth will be a mineral axis linking Jawf-Mareb-Shabwa and will 578 km at a cost of $ 850 million.
According to the report, the government is currently seeking to integrate the second an third axes to form a single axis and adding a fifth axis that will connect Sana'a with the western port city of Hodieda.
Studies for the fifth one will be conducted within three months and will connect largely populated cities including Taiz, Dhamar, Aden and Sana'a.
The report said that Yemen had agreed with the GCC Secretariat General to conduct a feasibility study to connect it with the GCC member states through a line connecting Omani city of Muscat to the Shahen crossing.
The Yemeni government has put the railway project as a priority for the future as it pins social and economic hops on it.
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