Persian Gulf States Plan $10 Billion Rail Link to Troubled Yemen
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Persian Gulf countries are studying a $10 billion plan to extend the length of a 2,177-kilometer (1,353-mile) rail line between Kuwait and Oman by 60 percent in order to link it to Yemen in the south of the Arabian peninsula.
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has begun a feasibility assessment of the additional 1,373 km section, which would feature 12 stations and terminate at the Yemeni border, Nada Abu Al Samh, a financial analyst at the GCC General Secretariat, said at a rail symposium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.