SRO awards $104.4 million freight line track-doubling contract

Transport and Related Services

The Saudi Railways Organisation (SRO), president H E Mohamed Al-Suwaiket, has inked a $US 104.4 million (Riyals 391.5 million) contract award with a Saudi contractor for the first phase of track-doubling on the Riyadh - Harad - Dammam freight-only line.

The scope of work involves doubling a 214Km section of the line from Hofuf to Harad, and the project is likely to take two years to be done.

According to SRO, the project will facilitate an increased capacity, lengthen trains and cut the 14-hour travel time for freight trains, by cutting down the occasions when trains have to wait in passing loops.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/sro-awards-1044-million-freight-line-track-doubling-contract-239.php