Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects announced that the USD 7 billion metro project will be launched next year.
“We are in the process of updating feasibility studies for the project and have appointed new advisers. We are planning to start the procurement in the first quarter of 2016. The metro would have 160 km and 68 stations – 60 per cent of that will be underground,” Fatima Al Kandari, a project manager at the Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (Kapp) said.
Metro system will be build in 5 phases and within the first phase, will be constructed the Red Line that will run from rail freight depot (being built for use on the GCC rail network) and Kuwait International Airport into Kuwait City.
Plans for Kuwait’s metro had been first announced in 2006 and the initial feasibility study was handed to the government in 2008, but it was subsequently put on hold.
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