(ANSAmed) - ROME, FEBRUARY 3 - The contracts for the construction of four railway stations in Saudi Arabia were awarded yesterday to the Bin Laden group and the Saudi company Oger. The news was reported by sources in the Saudi Railway Board, quoted yesterday by newspaper Assharq Al Awsat.
The stations are part of the high-speed train project in the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jeddah and the Economic City of King Abdallah. The four stations will cost around nine billion Saudi riyal, the equivalent of 2.4 billion USD. The train project will link the holy city of Mecca to Medina, and Jeddah to the Economic City of King Abdallah, over a length of 450 km. The trains will move an estimated 20 million passengers per year.
The Bin Laden group will build the station of Mecca, the largest one, and the station of Medina, the smallest of the four.
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