Yemen working on promising railway project
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Yemen said on Friday it intends to announce an international tender for a railway project that will link its 21 provinces and the country with the Arabian Gulf states with the BOT System.The project would be set up in association with the international private sector, minister of Transport said.
Khalid Ibrahim al-Wazeer also said that his ministry will choose advisors to prepare the tender and contracts for the project as well as taking part in negotiations over and supervision of its implementation.Yemen pins hopes on the project as there would be many investments on the railways that could revive its economy.The railways are planned to connect minerals areas with the international railway and ports, heavy-populated areas with ports, and agricultural and fish production ports with export and consumer terminals.The ministry has recently called on international competent consultation companies interested in offering their services for the project to apply, setting 12th of December as a deadline for application, he said.The first phase of consultation services including preparing the tender and contract documents according to commercially acknowledged standards worldwide will take two months starting from the date of signing a contract.The second phase will include weighing offers and afterward negotiations with the winner until finalizing a contract as well as supervising the project implementation.Three feasible studies on the project are currently underway by the ESCWA, including one on the coastal railway on the Yemeni-Saudi-Omani borders, another on the land railway for minerals wealth areas Jawf-Mareb-Shabwa, and one on the railway to connect populated areas with the port cities, al-Wazeer said.The studies would be completed by the end of this year, he said, adding after the studies are readied the government will announce an international tender for the project expected in the second half of 2010.The authorities will also finalize studying the comprehensive chart on the railway network and the allocation of land for the project that would be identified by the feasible studies as well as finalizing necessary procedures to put the railways within the expansion and organizational transport schemes in the country.
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