Milk-Tea

Bin Ladin Group awarded $2.3b KSA railroad project

28 November 2006


Saudi Binladin group offices, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

DUBAI — The Saudi Bin Ladin Group has been awarded the $2.3 billion North-South Railway project in Saudi Arabia, an official source told Khaleej Times yesterday.


The 2,000 kilometre railroad project will link Jeddah, Madina and Makkah to transport Saudi residents and those coming for Haj and Umrah. Eight contractors had participated in the bid including the Saudi Bin Ladin Group. The work on the railroad project will include: Construction of the roadbed (83 million m3 of earthworks); 254 concrete bridges; culverts (1059 sites); production of concrete sleepers (4.6 million units); procurement of rails (4,800km); flash-butt welding of rails (194,000 welds); production of crushed rock ballast (6.1 million m3); and installation of the mainline track structure (2,400km).

The project is expected to be completed by 2011.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...ction=business


Go KSA .. Go GCC

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Milk-Tea

Here is a pic of the family in the 70th i think and most of them r working in business like their father..

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[MakkabI]

they moslem? they aint look like moslem to me... :S

Milk-Tea

Well , they are ... in fact they have different mothers i think .. some arabs some europians , some americans ,..so u can c some of them r not like each other.. but they r veryyyyyyyy rich..

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nebuchadnezzar

lol, weird question... ever heard of Usama bin ladin? :p He's the marked guy on the picture, the others are his siblings.