Reuters reports that the French engineering group that has signed an outline agreement to build a metro line above Baghdad’s streets is in fact Alstom. Shaker al-Zamili, the head of Baghdad Investment Commission, said on Thursday that Iraqi officials signed a memorandum of understanding with Alstom in France last week. An Alstom spokeswoman in Paris […]
Tag Archives | Transglobim
Iraq Awards $600m Monorail Contract
Reuters reports that Iraq’s city of Najaf has awarded a Canadian company a $600 million contract to build the country’s first monorail. Anwar al-Haboobi, a member of the Najaf investment committee, told Reuters the project will be only the second of its kind in the Middle East after Dubai. The contract was awarded to TransGlobim […]