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Etihad Rail wins top GCC railway project award

DUBAI, May 28, 2016

Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the UAE's national rail network, said it has won top honours at the Middle East Economic Digest’s (Meed’s) 2016 Quality Awards for Projects for the Stage One of the project.

The award winners were announced at a grand ceremony which marked the end of the 2016 Meed Construction Leadership Summit, an executive-level event held in Dubai, UAE, which brought together delegates in the Gulf’s construction industry.

Projects from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were shortlisted for the awards, with a total of 50 attaining the highest honours across multiple categories, for being the highest quality projects in the Middle East, said the company in its statement.

The Meed Quality Awards for Projects, whose rigorous judging criteria factors in project socio-economic and environmental impact, coupled with design, engineering and significant construction milestones, recognises companies for their pioneering excellence in project execution across the region, it stated.

“Etihad Rail is honoured to receive the GCC Rail Project of the Year Award for 2016, in an awards programme that recognises some of the region’s and the world’s greatest success stories in construction and industrial performance,” remarked its CEO Faris Saif Al Mazrouei.

"Since beginning construction, Etihad Rail remains committed to ensuring the highest design and construction standards as part of an iconic project that will revolutionise the UAE’s logistics and transportation infrastructure," he stated.

The award-winning project is being delivered in three key stages of development, with the 1,200-km-long rail network forming part of the vital GCC railway network that links the UAE to Saudi Arabia through Ghweifat in the West and Oman through Al Ain in the East.-TradeArabia News Service




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