(Source: Reuters, October 30, 2013)
ABU DHABI — Oman plans to launch construction of the first part of a $15 billion rail network in the fourth quarter of 2014, a government official said on Wednesday. The state-funded, 1,395 mile rail network — the country’s first — would link the desert town of Buraimi, bordering the United Arab Emirates, to six major settlements in Oman including the industrial city of Sohar. It would eventually connect to a planned rail network across the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and eventually to neighboring Yemen.
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