Bridge set to link Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Work on $3 billion bridge linking Egypt's Aqaba with Saudi's Tabuk expected to begin in 2013
Ahram Online, Thursday 1 Mar 2012
Smoke rises from the burning passenger and car ferry Pella at the Red Sea in November 3, 2011 (Photo: Reuters)
The bridge will cross the Red Sea and link Aqaba in Egypt with Tabuk in Saudi Arabia.
It will be called the King Abdallah Ben Abdel Aziz Bridge.
According to General Fouad Abdel Aziz who heads the project, in the next few weeks an outline for the 50 km bridge will be made and the work will probably begin in 2013.
The project is expected to cost approximately $3 billion.
Saudi Arabia has a large Egyptian expat community, many of whom depend on ill-maintained ferries to cross the sea.
The volume of trade between the two countries is expected to reach $793 million in the 2011/12 financial year, some 4 per cent of Egypt's total trade volume, according to the Central Bank of Egypt.
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