The UAE Railways Program project called Etihad Rail is worth AED50 billion. It aims at establishing integrated system for transporting goods and passengers across the UAE.<\/p>\n
In addition, it will connect key port cities of the UAE from Ghuwaifat to Fujairah, speeding up transit times and reducing emissions.<\/p>\n
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said: \u201cThe Etihad Rail is the largest project to consolidate the strength of the union for the next fifty years. It will connect 11 key cities and regions across the UAE.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UAE\u2019s infrastructure is among the best in the world and the Etihad Rail will further enhance UAE excellence in the logistical field. The project comes in line with the environmental policy of the UAE and it will reduce carbon emissions by 70-80%.\u201d<\/p>\n
Better connected<\/strong><\/p>\n The UAE Railways program includes a national network of railway projects that link the emirates and the key cities of the country including three key projects; firstly the Freight Rail project, which includes the Etihad Rail freight services.<\/p>\n The second project is the Rail Passenger Services that aim to connect 11 cities with the UAE from Al Sila to Fujairah. At a speed of 200 km\/h the Rail Passenger will connect 11 cities within the UAE.<\/p>\n Lastly, there is the Integrated Transportation Service, where a network of light rail will be connected to the rail passenger system to facilitate transportation inside UAE cities.<\/p>\n Additionally, smart applications and solutions will also be developed to allow planning and booking trips, integrating logistics operations, port and customs services and integrated logistics solutions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0UAE has launched its largest integrated system for transporting goods and passengers across the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[130,145,9,192,191],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-greenport","tag-emissions","tag-logistics","tag-ports","tag-rail","tag-uae"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}