Deadline set for 15 September for rolling stock, depots and track work Qatar Railways Company is set to tender for the project management consultancy services contract for systems, rolling stock, depots and track work for Doha Metro. The tender is due to be floated on 28 July and the deadline for bids is set for 15 September. […]
Reducing the number of working hours confuses markets’ needs in Ramadan, according to business experts. Despite the fact that consumption and purchasing power increase in Ramadan, many workers seek fewer working hours. People staying awake until dawn results in lower productivity throughout the day. Such a lifestyle is negatively affecting the Saudi market. So businesses […]
The value of rail contracts awarded throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) reached $434 million in the first quarter of 2013, roughly 17 percent of the total $2.55 billion awarded in the transport sector overall. The value is likely to increase further this year as contracts for plans to build more than 33,712 […]
DAMMAM — The King Fahd Causeway that links Saudi Arabia to Bahrain is undergoing an ambitious development program that has dramatically driven up its capacity, according to the director of the King Fahd Causeway Authority. Badr Al-Otaishan told Al-Sharq daily that two islands will be constructed on either side of the bridge to increase capacity. Each […]
Op dit moment is het Ramadan in de Golfregio; een tijd voor bezinning en voor een frisse start. Op een dag als vandaag waarop het consumentenvertrouwen in Nederland verder blijkt te zijn gedaald en de werkloosheid gestegen bent u wellicht ook toe aan een frisse start in een groeimarkt, ver weg van de crisisstemming in […]
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, July 18 (Reuters) – Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) are planning a joint water supply system that takes seawater from outside the Gulf and distributes drinkable water across member states, an official at the GCC Secretariat General said. Scarce fresh water supply is the biggest challenge for Gulf Arab desert countries, forcing […]
The demand for engineers in Saudi Arabia is increasing in the wake of multi-billion-riyal projects in the economic, infrastructure, healthcare and educational development domains being implemented in the Kingdom. Gilles Cormier, acting dean of the College of Engineering at Al-Faisal University, told Arab News that many local projects are being supervised by foreign engineers. “We […]
A keenly-awaited award for the Preliminary Design Consultancy services contract was announced by the Tender Boardhere yesterday, effectively signalling the formal commencement of work on the multibillion rial Oman National Railway Project. Although the Tender Board announcement — in line with longstanding practice — did not name the successful bidder, the contract award value of RO 13.582 million […]
RIYADH – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirmed that the Kingdom has been one of the best performing G20 economies in recent years and has supported the global economy through its stabilizing role in the global oil market. The IMF also pointed out to the positive outlook of the Saudi economy which grew by 5.1 percent […]
The governments of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are studying the possibility of building a railway line parallel to King Fahd Causeway to ease the flow of goods between the two countries. This is part of a larger 2,177 km Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) railway project that will connect Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and […]