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Yemen - Consultative offers presented for Yemen railroad project
Publish Date : 17-Dec-2009
The ministry of Transportation announced on Saturday that it had received offers from 36 world consultative firms competing for preparing tenders and contracts for a railroad project that will link Yemen\'s 22 provinces and Yemen with the Arabian Gulf.
The railroads will operate with the BOT system and an international tender for it would be made public for international private companies in the second half of 2010.
Transportation minister Khalid Ibrahim al-Wazeer said the offers were handed coinciding with feasibility studies on the project given to the UN-ESCWA.
The three studies were prepared by experts from the UN body, he said.
In mid October, the ministry called for a consortium by firms interested on the project, giving December 12 as a deadline to present their bids.
Al-Wazeer said his ministry will pick advisors from qualified firms to prepare the tender and contracts for the project and take part in negotiations over and overseeing its implementation.
Yemen pins hopes on the project, saying investments that can boost national economy could be set up along railroads that will connect mineral wealth areas with international ports and lines, populated areas with port cities and fish and agricultural production areas with export and consumption ports.
The first phase of the project is expected to take two months in which tender and contract documents are prepared.
The second phase will include assistance on evaluating offers and negotiations with the winner until a contract is signed; overseeing implementation which will start by 2010, he said.
Feasibility studies took two years and were on a railroad that will be set up on the coastal line from the crossing of Altiwal on the border with Saudi Arabia to the Shahin port on the Yemeni-Omani border; the railway which will link the mineral wealth cities, Jawf, Mareb, Shabwa, and the railway to connect populated areas with port cities.
The project technical specifications were based on the Road and Railway Agreements, recently ratified by Yemen.
Meanwhile, working is underway with the GCC states for feasibility studies on railroads which will connect them with Yemen, he said.
Moreover, works and studies on allocating and getting plots of land for the project is accelerating, with the government working on all necessary measures to implement it on time and as wanted to be.
