The cargo was described as a serious milestone within the improvement of the area’s first cross-border railway connection, which can hyperlink Sohar with the United Arab Emirates.
The primary batch of rails, produced at ArcelorMittal’s Gijón services, arrived on the Port of Sohar in August 2025. The cargo consisted of three,800 rails of the 60E2 R260 grade, every measuring 25 meters in size, with a complete weight of 5,700 tonnes. Additional deliveries are scheduled all through 2026, with whole shipments below the undertaking anticipated to succeed in 33,100 tonnes.
Designed to face up to axle a great deal of as much as 32.4 tonnes, the rails have been specifically engineered to swimsuit the area’s working and environmental situations and to accommodate each heavy freight and passenger visitors. As soon as accomplished, the 238-kilometer line will join Sohar to the UAE’s nationwide rail community, strengthening commerce flows, bettering logistics effectivity, and supporting interplay between the 2 international locations’ industrial and concrete facilities.
The undertaking is being developed by Hafeet Rail, a three way partnership between Oman’s Asyad Group and the UAE’s Etihad Rail, with financing supplied by Mubadala Funding Firm. Following completion, operations of the road will even be managed by Hafeet Rail.
