Türkiye and Saudi Arabia aim to build a railway to link the two countries with Jordan and Syria in the next three or four years, a senior official said on Sunday, adding other Gulf countries would also join the project.
The railway would help alleviate in future the problems that have arisen from the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz caused by the war in Iran, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu told Al Jazeera.
The project is described in a memorandum of understanding signed between Ankara and Riyadh last week on logistics cooperation and the railway sector.
In the initial phase, a rail link would allow for the transport of goods, oil, natural gas and people between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, Jordan, Syria and Europe, Uraloğlu said.
He added that the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and possibly Yemen would be included later too.
