Jordan, Iraq revive the railway line project
Jordan-Iraq, Economics, 1/3/2001

Jordanian officials announced that Jordan and Iraq are planning to revive the project of setting up a railway line linking the two countries.

The director general of the Jordanian railways Leith Dababinah said that a joint committee between the two states will be formed shortly to re-study the said project, noting that this was in implementation of the decisions of the joint higher committee which was held in Baghdad during the visit of the Jordanian prime minister Ali Abu al-Ragheb to Iraq.

Al-Dababinah said that the new study includes the establishment of a railway line linking Baghdad to Amman as a first phase and the linking operation to be completed with al-Aqaba port in the future.

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