📋 Tender Overview
Scope of Work:
To Build Development Road link with Turkey.
Description:
The project also comprises a 1,190-km motorway for cargo trucks that will run parallel to the rail network. The cabinet has already approved the project and the routes for both the rail line and the motorway it would soon begin procedures for project designs. The freight train will have an initial capacity of 3.5 million containers and 22 million tonnes of bulk cargo per year, to be raised in the second phase to 7.5 million containers and 33 million tonnes/year. The high-speed passenger train, which will travel at 300 kph, has an initial capacity of 13.8 million passengers per year and will pass through 9 governorates, another 140-kph electric train would also be built. The two-way motorway will be built in desert areas outside population centres since it will be confined only to cargo trucks. The two projects include the construction of service facilities for passengers and truck drivers…they are designed to connect Iraq with Europe via Turkey to turn the country into a strategic commercial and logistics hub.
Previous Events:
January 2024- Iraq has awarded a contract to the US company Oliver Wyman to prepare a financial and economic study for Iraq’s mega rail project.
January 2024- 53% of designs for Iraq’s mega rail project finished.
July 2023- Iraq is planning to issue several tenders for a project to build a motorway linking its south to the northern border with Turkey.
March 2023- Iraq is planning to build a dual rail line for freight and passenger trains that will link its Southern Faw Port with Turkey as par
