Muscat: Mr. Abdulrahman bin Saleh al-Hathmi, the CEO of the Omani plain board, Asyad Group, has announced the begining of preparing to carry out the construction work for the Hafeet Rail project linking the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates
He specifically stated that the railway line has been thoughtfully designed with cutting edge engineering ideas to assist the rail to get through the terrain variations and different climate conditions of that area.
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Scope
On the other hand, Al Hatmi pinpointed the fact that the project would be including stations for passenger travels in Suhar and in Al Ain as the freight stations would be there in the cities of Sohar, Buraimi, and in Al Ain. The railway is predicted to shorten the travel time dramatically. The car ride between Suhar and Abu Dhabi will be shortened to 100 min, and Suhar-Al Ain route is expected to be only 47 minutes from the point of view of this 238 km route.
The CEO underscored the economic advantages of the project by pointing out that the loaded freight train would have a potential payload capacity of more than 25,000 tons or an equivalent of over 270 standard containers; at the same time, this would be one of the measures to reduce greenhouse emissions to the level 10 of times lower than that of alternative vehicles. An expected speed of the freight train will be approx. 120 km/h and a speed of the passenger train will be 200 km/h.
Length
The project includes two tunnels that covers a 2.5 km length and 36 bridges the highness of 34 meters which ensures the bridge. The project is expected to yield huge amount of savings in terms of the cost of transporting goods which lies between $0.35 – $0.40 per mile compared to other modes of transportation. In addition, we want to shorten travel time by 80 percent of goods between Sohar and Abu Dhabi relative to the sea transportation, and up to 50 percent compared to the the car travel.
The key contribution of Engineer Hatmi in building the Hafeet Rail project was emphasizing the importance of such transportation infrastructures for economic prosperity, integrated between the Kingdom of Oman and the United Arab Emirates. From this aspect, the railway is considered as a locomotive for the trade promotion and integration connecting countries in business dealings, ensuring transportation of goods and people through the network quickly and environmentally sustainable ways.
The project is connected with general regional measures of increasing transport infrastructure and of the economic relation strengthening within the area. The project, as it portrays, will be a substantial cost of the possible expansion of transportation in the area, given the prospect of new chances in the area of export, investment, and other activities leading to development.
In summary, the kick-off of the Hafeet Rail undertaking is a moment that symbolizes the beginning of the cross-border connection facilitation process, an enterprise that seeks to enhance connectivity and create economic growth between Oman and the UAE. Driven by model, process automatization and excellent economic performance, the railway is people to play the leading role of the area transportation in the days to come.
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