Egypt mentioned it has accomplished the planning of a bridge that will hyperlink Saudi Arabia to its Sinai Peninsula and finally join Asia and Europe by rail.
Egyptian transport minister Kamel al-Wazir advised Reuters throughout an financial convention organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt: “Now we have now accomplished the planning for the bridge between Egypt and Saudi Arabia and are able to implement it at any time – whether or not a bridge or a tunnel.
“However the (present) answer for connecting Egypt with Saudi Arabia and Jordan is thru the Arab Bridge Maritime Firm, which at the moment has 13 vessels that may take cargo between Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt.”
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz first floated the concept for the 32-kilometer-long bridge throughout a state go to to Egypt in 2016. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi urged that the bridge throughout the Strait of Tiran be referred to as the King Salman bin Abdulaziz Bridge. At the moment, it was estimated that the whole value of the venture could be US$4 billion and it could be funded by Saudi Arabia.
The long-planned bridge to hyperlink Saudi Arabia’s Ras Hamid to an space close to Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh space is but to be finalised, however Egypt has been increasing its railways alongside seven separate axes, al-Wazir advised Reuters. These embody three high-speed traces that will join Sokhna Port on the Pink Sea with the Mediterranean and Alexandria within the north and with Aswan within the far south.
Rail cargo could be despatched to a sequence of ports on the Mediterranean that Egypt has been upgrading during the last decade. The high-speed prepare line connecting to Egypt’s south would skirt the sting of the pyramids space within the desert, whereas concurrently serving the positioning, he added.
In September 2023, native media reported that Egypt was investing almost US$7.8 billion within the first section of its 2,000-km high-speed electrical prepare community. The venture was awarded to Germany’s Siemens Mobility and its Egyptian companions Orascom Building and the Arab Contractors Firm, and is scheduled to be accomplished in three phases.
A proposed route by means of the positioning of Abydos, the place Egypt’s first pharaohs had been buried 5,000 years in the past, has been diverted to move over the plateau above and away from the antiquities website.
