Transportation in the Arab League

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Transportation in the Arab League is considered fairly inequipped, Transportational infrastructure has been growing slowly.

1 Highways
- 1.1 Regional highways
2 Railways
- 2.1 Proposed Railways
3 Waterways
4 Pipelines
5 Ports and harbors
6 Merchant marine
7 Airports
- 7.1 Airports with paved runways
- 7.2 Airports with unpaved runways
8 Heliports

[edit] Highways

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[edit] Regional highways

Highways and Roads in the States of the Arab League

There are Several Cross-Arab State roads, Crossing the Arab World from its farthest point in the west in Mauritania, to its eastern farthest point in Oman.The Arab States are connected with a Massive Road and Highways that Cross Its Deserts, Mountains and Forests, The most developed State with High Road Infrastructure is UAE, Followed by Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt, while countries such as Sudan, Libya, Mauritania, Somalia and Yemen seem to have a lot of Building to do.

[edit] Railways

Rail Lines in the Arab League

Souk Ahras-Ghardimaou line already connect Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with each others, but Morocco and Algeria have closed the line due to Increased Tensions. while Libya, Egypt and Sudan are not connected to each other, in the Asian part, almost all Arab states have been connected by railroads, except the Gulf States.

Perhaps the Most developed Railways connecting Arab States can be found between Iraq and Syria, with the Iraqi Republic Railways which runs through Syria to Turkey. New underway projects to develop the Arab-Rail Lines have been under construction, Linking South Egyptian City of Abu Simbel with North Sudanese City of Wadi Halfa

[edit] Proposed Railways

In October 2007 French company Alstom announced it would supply 18 TGV Duplex trains to ONCF in 2008. The trains will run at 320 km/h between Tanger, Rabat and Casablanca

There are long term projects to re-open the Palestine Railway with Egypt.

Reviving the Railway Lines of Hijaz between Medina and Mecca to Damascus, crossing Jordan.

A line will be constructed in the first instance from Juba southwards along the White Nile to connect with the Ugandan system at Pakwach.

the Gulf Train Line will run through Kuwait City, Damman, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and end in Muscat, other plans of reaching it to Manama and Doha are under study.