OMAN-Etihad Railway Company (OERC) has awarded the civil works and railway systems contracts for the project to build a 303km railway from Sohar in Oman to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Civil works will be undertaken by an alliance of companies from Oman and the UAE, led by Trojan Construction Group and Galfar Engineering and Contracting.
Siemens, in consortium with Hassan Allam Construction of Egypt, has been awarded a design-build contract for railway systems and integration, including ETCS Level 2 signalling, telecommunications and power supply systems.
“The signalling solutions are state-of-the art and desert-proof,” the consortium partners say.
Expected to cost $US 3bn to build, the Oman-Etihad Railway has now been renamed as Hafeet Rail, after the Jabal Hafeet mountain on the border between Oman and the UAE. The new name is intended to highlight the strategic location of the new railway and its historic significance to both countries.
“We are deeply honoured and proud to have been entrusted by Oman-Etihad Rail with this strategic project that will not only contribute to the social and economic development of both countries, but which I believe will be a groundbreaking project for the entire region,” says Mr Ayman Ashour, CEO of Siemens Mobility in the UAE.
“Hassan Allam Construction and Siemens have a long-standing record of successful collaboration in Egypt, and we are honoured to extend this partnership in other important regional countries like the UAE and Oman,” says Mr Hassan Allam, chairman of Hassan Allam Construction.
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