UAE launches “Etihad Rail ” railway programme- All you need to know

UAE residents and tourists will soon be able to travel across the Emirates within minutes.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, reviewed the progress on the expanding rail network and its impact on the local economy, during Expo2020 Dubai briefing.

The UAE’s rail project will transport millions of people between the cities by 2030.

The project – worth an estimated Dh200 billion to the economy – will allow passengers to travel from Abu Dhabi to Dubai in 50 minutes, and from Abu Dhabi to Fujairah in 100 minutes.

Etihad Rail’s network will grow from running heavy goods services to carry millions of passengers between its major cities by 2030, the government said.

It will connect 11 key cities and regions across the UAE.

The project embodies the Principles of the 50th.

The first phase of Etihad Rail, completed in 2016, is largely used to move industrial products such as sulphur between key ports, taking thousands of heavy vehicles off the roads.

Phase two links the UAE and Saudi Arabia from Fujairah Port to Ghuweifat, through Mussaffah, Khalifa Port and Jebel Ali Port. The two phases together will support more than 9,000 jobs, many of them UAE nationals.

The Etihad Rail is the largest project to consolidate the strength of the union for the next fifty years. It represents the spirit of the union, connecting the 7 emirates of the UAE with one another.

The project comes in line with the environmental policy of the UAE and it will reduce carbon emissions by 70-80 per cent“.