jordan is growing a rail freight community in its pass to position itself as a regional delivery hub through connecting with Saudi’s North South rail and trans-national rail routes among China and Europe.
Minister of Transport Khalid Saif stated the countrywide rail challenge bureaucracy a part of the authorities’s plan to capitalise on Jordan’s geostrategic area and upgrade the u . S .’s entire delivery region.
“Our vision is to have a 1,000 km railway network simply for shipment,” he stated on Tuesday even as speaking at a rail conference in Dubai.
He stated the venture’s targets encompass better domestic freight connections among the main economic centres in the u . S .; improve transport safety and protect the surroundings by means of decreasing shipping-associated emissions.
“The first phase, from Aqaba to Amman through Ma’an, includes the development of a four hundred-km lengthy trendy gauge railway connecting the Aqaba Port’s container terminal and commercial areas to the Maddouneh Dry Port in Amman,” said Saif.
The railway task will even link Jordan to Saudi Arabia and different Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, Iraq and Syria.
Subsequent phases might hyperlink Maddouneh to Saudi Arabia through the Umari border and ultimately to the Saudi North-South Railway, and then link the dry port with Syria, the minister noted.
