{"id":96198,"date":"2026-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/?p=96198"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:09:28","slug":"saudi-cabinet-greenlights-gcc-railway-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/2026\/05\/21\/saudi-cabinet-greenlights-gcc-railway-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi cabinet greenlights GCC railway plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tag-border-left\">Saudi cabinet greenlights GCC railway plans<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong> Saudi Arabia\u2019s cabinet approved the Kingdom\u2019s accession to the GCC <\/strong><strong>railway agreement<\/strong> in a session held yesterday, state news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spa.gov.sa\/en\/N2590780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPA<\/a> reports. The decision moves the long-discussed Gulf rail network \u2014 first floated more than a decade ago \u2014 closer to execution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>REFRESHER- <\/strong>The project is a 2.1k-km railway that aims to link the six GCC member states. Numerous delays have long stalled the railway, which was projected to cost some USD 15 bn back in 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>The war seems to have put some urgency on the project.<\/strong> Saudi Arabia Railways launched a tender for design consultancy services for its portion of the railway <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/05\/13\/this-morning-did-saudi-retaliate-against-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last week<\/a>, while Kuwait <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2026\/05\/14\/this-morning-aramco-explores-usd-10-bn-sale-and-leaseback-of-its-real-estate-portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved<\/a> the right-of-way and land allocation for the rail link connecting Kuwait to Saudi Arabia as part of the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">Connecting Yanbu, Jeddah, Ain Sokhna, and Aqaba<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>Folk Maritime launched its Red Sea Express shipping service in Yanbu\u2019s King <\/strong><strong>Fahad Industrial Port<\/strong>, connecting it to Jeddah Islamic Port, Egypt\u2019s Ain Sokhna Port, and Jordan\u2019s Aqaba Port, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MawaniKSA\/status\/2056741893623414784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> from Mawani. The service has a 1.1k standard container capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories on our radar this morning from around the region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[62,174,17,161,577,123,129],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-96198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-also-on-our-radar","tag-also-on-our-radar","tag-earnings-watch","tag-enterprise-logistics","tag-ksa","tag-railways","tag-shipping-maritime","tag-uae","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"1076f9fc-7f44-478f-8933-693926b1c671","order":"8","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2026\/3\/1378.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"GCC railway gets Saudi\u2019s cabinet green light","related_issue":[96185],"teaser":"Stories on our radar this morning from around the region","photo_link":"","related_sponsor":"","voice_url":"","en_translation_ref_id":"","section_story_id":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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