Iraq's railways transport 108.6 thousand passengers in the first quarter

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Iraq's railways transport 108.6 thousand passengers in the first quarter

by Rocky Mon 14 May 2018, 5:40 am

Iraq's railways transport 108.6 thousand passengers in the first quarter

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A total of 108.63 thousand passengers have been relocated in the first quarter of this year, the state-run railway company said Monday.
"Some 108.63 thousand passengers were transported during the first quarter of 2018," Salam Saloum, the company's general manager, said in a statement received by Al-Iktissad News. "The trains start from Baghdad and Basra with two flights a day."
The Iraqi railway, revenues amounted to 1.68 billion dinars in the first quarter of this year.
Revenues amounted to 4.39 billion dinars by the end of 2017, through the transfer of 435.41 thousand passengers, from the central station in Baghdad to the Basra station and vice versa, through the southern regions (Nasiriyah, Samawah, Diwaniyah, Hilla).
Iraq put railway projects at $ 30 billion at a donor conference in Kuwait last February.
The governor of Baghdad met in January this year, director of the "Alstom French Transport", to discuss the ongoing arrangements in the railway project suspended in the Iraqi capital.
The director of the State Company for Iraqi Railways, earlier, the losses of the sector in the provinces and areas liberated from the "da'ash" terrorist by $ 380 million.

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