Work on a new railway line between Turkey and Iraq’s Mosul will begin in the coming days, according to a provincial official, despite much of the city’s infrastructure still in a state of disrepair from the war with the Islamic State (ISIS) and decades of mismanagement.
“The specialized engineering and technical staff, in cooperation with Turkish engineering construction companies, will start within days the laying of a modern railway linking the city of Mosul and the Turkish Republic in order to reduce the momentum on the roads,” Governor of Nineveh Najm al-Jabouri told Iraqi state media outlet al-Sabaah on Saturday.
The official did not release any details on how the project would be paid for or how much it would cost.
Rudaw
20/09/2020
