DESIGN work on the $US 17bn Development Road project to create a new 1200km double-track passenger and freight railway between the Grand Port at Al Faw in Iraq and the Turkish border has been finalised.
Mr Nasser Al-Asadi, transport affairs advisor to the Iraqi prime minister, confirmed that this stage of the project is now complete on September 6. In a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), Al-Asadi explained that construction of the new line will incorporate cutting-edge technology and that artificial intelligence (AI) will play a significant role in the project.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in Baghdad on April 22 between Iraq, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar to cooperate on the project.
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