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Governments in the GCC have instigated plans for multi-billion dollar transport and networking projects that will help further the region's clout as a magnet for international logistics and engineering service providers. The countries of the GCC are set to spend over $100bn on setting up modern rail networks connecting all countries of the Arabian Peninsula.

Rolling stock and systems contracts will form the final phase of the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2016. Turner & Townsend is advising QRail on the project. QRail has invited expressions of interest in the Doha metro project, the first phase of which includes 22 km of tunnel and 15 underground stations.

A joint venture between Vinci Construction Grands Projets (49%) and QDVC (51%) has won the € 374 million (US$ 540 million) contract to build a light rail transit (LRT) system in the new Qatari city of Lusail, 15 km north of the capital Doha. QDVC is a subsidiary of Qatari Diar, a state-owned investment company that also owns 5.7% of Vinci.

"Trans4 Exhibition-2011 has a strategic importance as it is organized in the host country of the World Cup 2022, with considerable budget allocated to set up world-class infrastructure." This includes a $20bn worth of road projects and the Doha Metro, the $11bn New Doha International Airport and the Doha new Port, as well as projects for the development of new cities such as Lusail and Mushairib city to mention just a few.

The Managing Director and Board Member of Qatar Railways Company Engineer Abdullah Abdul Aziz Al Subaie has said that the company is currently working on the documents of its first tender for the railway and metro system in Qatar, adding that the tender is expected to be offered soon and that some preliminary designs have already been prepared.

Also today, freight transport and logistics in the Middle East region are highly inefficient and dominated by road transport. Governments in the region have initiated multi-billion US Dollar programs to establish a rail network in the Middle East / GCC to benefit from the lower emissions of rail freight transport and to accommodate the significantly increased demand.

The New South Wales company had secured the Qatar contract following its recent work on the expansion of the Dubai International Airport. It has completed a number of contracts in the Middle East, including work on the Dubai Rail Metro.

Public transportation and rail infrastructure projects in the GCC countries saw tremendous growth over the last few years, with rail and metro projects leading the way in terms of the total value of the completed and underway projects, hitting $10,270,000, in Qatar, the UAE and the KSA.

The Qatari government will be able to pay for US$70 billion (Dh257.1bn) of infrastructure projects for the 2022 Fifa World Cup of football out of cash flow, the chief of the International Bank of Qatar (IBQ) says. The infrastructure is to be built in phases. Work on a national rail system and metro lines in Doha is expected to start in 2015, along with the development of an airport, a deepwater port and a causeway connecting Qatar with Bahrain.

Some small impressions of the Dubai Metro, the world's longest driverless metro system, on the Red Line (the only line opened at this point). A complete passenger drive on the complete line will follow.