Türkiye and Saudi Arabia sign memoranda on railway revival and logistics cooperation
Türkiye and Saudi Arabia signed two memoranda of understanding in Riyadh on June 9, one concerning railway cooperation to revive the historic Hejaz Railway through Syria and Jordan, and another on logistics. Accounts differ on whether the logistics memorandum included plans for a terrestrial fiber-optic route along the same geography. A joint feasibility study is due before the end of the year,根据欧
On June 9, Türkiye and Saudi Arabia signed two memoranda of understanding in Riyadh: one on railway cooperation to revive the historic Hejaz Railway through Syria and Jordan, and another on logistics. According to europesays.com, the logistics memorandum was accompanied by plans for a terrestrial fiber-optic route along the same geography. However, dailysabah reported only that the second memorandum concerned logistics, without mentioning the fiber-optic route. A joint feasibility study is due before the end of the year, according to europesays.com. The long-term vision extends the line toward Oman and the Indian Ocean, according to europesays.com. The Hejaz Railway revival is presented as part of a long-term strategic design by Ankara. Multiple infrastructure projects are described as components of a single strategic geometry. A reference to Halford Mackinder's strategic theory is invoked.
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