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NEW CONNECTIONS
IRAN
Tehran Metro Lines 6 & 7
Work is underway on Tehran’s
two new metro lines, worth
US$1.2 billion, which are set for
completion in January 2010.
T_h e major transportation infrastructure projects on the
drawing board or underway across key emerging markets
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Tehran
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Cairo
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LIBYA Manama
EGYPT
BAHRAIN
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ALGERIA LIBYA EGYPT SAUDI ARABIA
East-West Motorway Coastal Railway Cairo Metro Line 3 Makkah Light Rail
Algeria’s cross-country This 352-kilometre rail network will Cairo’s new US$2 billion metro A 19-kilometre-long railway will link the holy
highway stretches 1,216 connect the Libyan cities of Khums and line spans 33 kilometres with sites of Makkah, Mina, Muzdalifah and Arafat, and
kilometres from the Tunisian Sirts and is expected to be completed 29 stations, and is scheduled for is expected to serve 90,000 passengers per
border to the boundary by 2012. In March, the China Railway completion in December 2011. hour. In February, China Railway Construction
with Morocco. The US$11 Construction Corporation (CRCC) was Three more lines are planned to Corporation was awarded the main contract for
billion project is expected to appointed as the main contractor for the be operational by 2022. the US$2 billion project, and construction will
be completed in November US$1.8 billion project. take two years.
this year.
Tripoli Airport, New Terminals King Abdullah Economic City, Seaport
The capital’s two new terminals, covering This US$5 billion, 2.5 million-square-metre
a total area of 325,000 square metres, will seaport will be only of the biggest ports in the
be able to handle 20 million passengers world, able to handle 20 million containers and
per year. In May it was announced that 300,000 pilgrims per year. The first phase is
the US$2 billion project is on track for expected to be completed by December 2011.
completion in February 2010.
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