14 corridors linking 39 cities, about 7,600 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 9,100 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 11 cross-border links and crossings. Riyadh to Jeddah, Dammam and Hofuf, the Gulf states from Kuwait to Muscat with Dubai joined to Oman through Al Ain, Iraq’s Development Road, Yemen, and sea crossings at the Strait of Tiran and the Bab-el-Mandeb to Africa.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC Arabia network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
IQ-1 Development Road: Zakho – Mosul – Baghdad – Basra – Al Faw
AE-1 Etihad: Ghuwaifat – Ruwais – Abu Dhabi – Dubai
AE-2 Al Ain: Abu Dhabi – Al Ain
OM-1 Batinah: Buraimi – Sohar – Muscat
SA-5 Tihama: Jeddah – Jizan
YE-1 Yemen: Hodeidah – Sanaa – Taiz – Aden
YE-2 Bab-el-Mandeb: Taiz – Dhubab
AE-3 Dubai–Al Ain: Dubai – Al Ain
Engagement
To initiate the programme in Arabia.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Arabia: Make contact.
