Tender issued for railway that could reach Jordan
Middle East • March 2011 • Views: 592
The proposed Jezreel Valley line would roughly follow the route of the defunct Hejaz railway built by the Ottoman Empire.
If realized, the line will provide Jordanian products with a Mediterranean outlet to Europe and North America. Currently such products have to take a circuitous route through the port of Aqaba on the Red Sea.
Of course this may never be built, but some folks in the region are thinking ‘butter’ instead of ‘guns’.