The first phase of the railway will be 270-kilometres in length
UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan has appointed a new chairman for the Union Railways Company board.
Nasser Ahmed Khalifa al-Suwaidi will now replace Hussein Jassim al-Nowais as chairman of the board.
State-owned rail company Union Railways is developing the UAE national railway network (MEED 24:3:10).
The first phase of the $11bn scheme involves the construction of a 270-kilometre freight line that will connect oil and gas processing and distribution facilities at Ruwais in the north with the Shah gas field in the south of the emirate.
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