The Central Agency for Public Tenders authorized the General Authority for Roads and Land Transport to complete bids for the detailed study and design project agreement, and to prepare documents for the first-stage railway tender, after the Authority opened the 9 bids submitted for the tender.

Authority sources pointed out that completing the agreement’s bids comes through completing the deficiencies in the documents submitted by the companies competing for the agreement.

It is noteworthy that the first phase includes connectivity with the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the route of this phase extends from the southern border with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Nuwaiseeb area) all the way to the passenger station in Kuwait City (behind Kuwait International Airport on the Seventh Ring Road) and extends north through the Silk City to Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port. This phase includes 111 kilometers of the Gulf Cooperation Council route, in addition to 154 kilometers to reach Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port. This route contributes to the process of transporting passengers, freight operations, and transporting goods to and from Boubyan in the future, so the total length of this phase is 265 kilometers.