- The venture is value AED50 billion and goals at establishing an built-in system for transporting items and passengers throughout the UAE.
- Etihad Rail is the primary highway transport system that connects key cities of the UAE from Ghuwaifat to Fujairah.
Within the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, the UAE Authorities introduced the launch of the UAE Railways Program, the biggest built-in system for transporting items and passengers throughout the nation.
This system constitutes an built-in technique for the railway sector within the UAE for the approaching many years, because it features a nationwide community of railway tasks that hyperlink the emirates and the important thing cities of the nation. Stage One of many Etihad Rail has been totally operational since 2016, with alternatives to develop past the borders of the UAE.
The UAE Railways Program falls below the ‘Initiatives of the 50’ which is a collection of developmental and financial tasks that goal to speed up the UAE’s improvement, rework it right into a complete hub in all sectors and set up its standing as an excellent vacation spot for skills and traders.
The UAE Railways Program was launched throughout a particular occasion celebrating the tasks of the 50, held at Dubai’s EXPO 2020. The occasion highlighted the aims of this system and the levels of the “Etihad Rail” venture, which connects Ghuwaifat on the border with Saudi Arabia to the port of Fujairah on the Japanese Coast.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum mentioned, “The Etihad Rail is the biggest venture to consolidate the power of the union for the subsequent fifty years. It should join 11 key cities and areas throughout the UAE.”
His Highness added: “The UAE’s infrastructure is among the many finest on the earth, and the Etihad Rail will additional improve UAE excellence within the logistical discipline. The venture comes according to the environmental coverage of the UAE and it’ll cut back carbon emissions by 70-80%,”.
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, mentioned, “The Nationwide Railways Program displays the true that means of integration into our nationwide financial system, as we see the biggest partnership between authorities entities on the federal and native ranges. It involves help a nationwide imaginative and prescient to attach the nation’s key facilities of business and manufacturing, open new commerce routes and facilitate inhabitants motion, creating essentially the most developed work and life surroundings within the area.”
H.H. Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s Court docket, and Chairman of Etihad Rail, mentioned that the UAE Railways Program is a key milestone within the highway transport sector and a real reflection to ‘The Ideas of the 50’.
H.H. Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan added that the UAE Railways Program extends a possibility to qualify and practice Emirati skills and allow them to steer this very important sector sooner or later.
Qualifying and coaching nationwide cadres
Shadi Malak, Chief Government Officer of Etihad Rail, mentioned that the Etihad Rail is operated by Emirati skills who possess an distinctive expertise they achieve throughout Section one and two, stating that the UAE Railways Program gives greater than 9000 jobs by 2030.
Malak added that the Rail Passenger Providers will improve the transportation system throughout the UAE permitting passengers to journey from Abu Dhabi to Dubai in 50 minutes, and from Abu Dhabi to Fujairah in 100 minutes.
Eng. Kholoud Al Mazrouei, Deputy Venture Supervisor of Etihad Rail mentioned that Etihad Rail helps the general public transport system within the UAE, stating that the important thing milestones are achieved in the course of the Stage One together with the transportation 30 thousand tonnes as a substitute of transporting 5 thousand tonnes of granulated Sulphur by vehicles, which have contributed to the UAE being the world’s main exporter of sulphur, and eliminating 2.5 million truck journeys, which interprets into growing the extent of highway security, decreasing upkeep prices and decreasing carbon dioxide emissions.
Three strategic tasks
The UAE Railway Program goals to develop a sustainable highway transport system that helps financial improvement efforts in all sectors, together with the surroundings, business and tourism. This system additionally goals to attach the emirates of the UAE and supply a dependable transportation system.
The investments of the UAE Railway Program quantity to AED50 billion, 70% of which targets the native market. This system contributes to offering greater than 9,000 jobs within the railway sector and supporting sectors by 2030.
This system contributes to decreasing 70-80% of carbon emissions, a transfer that helps the UAE’s efforts to protect the surroundings and obtain its objective of carbon neutrality.
The UAE Railway Program consists of three key tasks; the primary venture is the Freight Rail, which incorporates the Etihad Rail freight providers.
The second venture is the Rail Passenger Providers that goal to attach 11 cities with the UAE from Al Sila to Fujairah. At a pace of 200 km/h the Rail Passenger will join 11 cities inside the UAE, the place passengers can journey from Abu Dhabi to Dubai in 50 minutes, and from Abu Dhabi to Fujairah in 100 minutes.
By 2030, the variety of passengers is predicted to succeed in greater than 36.5 million yearly.
The third venture is the Built-in Transportation Service, the place an innovation middle will likely be established to make sure the combination of the sensible transportation options. A community of sunshine rail will likely be linked to the Rail Passenger System to facilitate transportation inside UAE cities.
Moreover, sensible functions and options may also be developed to permit planning and reserving journeys, integrating logistics operations, port and customs providers, and offering built-in logistics options.
The UAE Railway Program creates huge financial alternatives amounting to AED200 billion; the estimated advantages of decreasing carbon emissions quantity to AED21 billion, highway upkeep AED8 billion, along with attaining tourism advantages estimated at AED23 billion in the course of the subsequent 50 years, in the meantime the general public advantages on the UAE economic system will attain AED23 billion.
Etihad Rail
Etihad Rail launched operations of Stage One in 2016. Etihad Rail commenced building of Stage Two in early 2020, attaining in lower than 24 months 70% of this stage, regardless of the challenges introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic, Etihad Rail has continued to forge forward and full the venture in accordance with its clearly outlined objectives and complete work plan.
180 entities have been cooperating and greater than 40 thousand official papers have been issued. 27 thousand persons are working in additional than 3000 constructions websites throughout the nation attaining 76 million working hours thus far.
