According to Reuters, Qatar, host of the 2022 soccer World Cup, plans to offer the first tender for its railway and metro system in the next three months. Preliminary designs had already been prepared, said Abdullah al-Subaie, managing director of th...

As reported by Reuters a five-year project for French engineering group Alstom to build an above-ground urban metro line in Baghdad will cost $1.5 billion and be funded by the French government and banks, according to Iraqi officials. The planned l...

In South Africa talks are underway between the Government and the Chinese State-owned China Railway Group on construction of high-speed railway line between the cities of Johannesburg and Durban, length 556km. Project cost is estimated at US $ 30 bil...