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Article: Saudi Arabia : Five bidders in hunt for Saudi railway.
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- October 8, 2009
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France's Alstom , China Railway Construction Corp and Germany's Siemens are among bidders for a 450-km (280 mile) railway in Saudi Arabia, an official said on Tuesday.
South Korea's Samsung C&T is also among five pre-qualified consortiums which have been asked to submit bids for the final phase of the high-speed link, one of three railway projects planned in the kingdom, said Abdul-Aziz al-Hoqail, chairman of state-owned Saudi Railway Organization (SRO).
The Haramain Railway, or the Two Holy Mosques railroad, will link the spiritual heart of Islam, Mecca, and its second-most sacred city, Medina, to the kingdom's commercial hub Jeddah on the Red Sea ...