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Makkah Madinah Rail Link

eurailSpeed Milano 2005

Khalid H. Alyahya

President, Saudi Railways Organization

8 November 2005


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The Law office of

Abdulaziz Al-Fahad

SECTION 1

Introduction and background


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Introduction

Saudi Arabia: Home to the two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah

Currently, over 20 million travellers per year

number expected to grow to 30 million by 2020

50% of travellers likely to use high speed rail

MMRL to provide a fast, safe, reliable and comfortable transport

service

MMRL to propel Saudi Arabia into the world of high-speed rail

MMRL to be implemented on PPP basis

The Makkah Madinah Rail Link (MMRL) will transport

millions of passengers every year

on state-of-the-art high speed rail infrastructure


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The MMRLKey characteristics

Segment Distance

Jeddah Makkah 80 km

Jeddah Madinah 420 km

Makkah Madinah 500 km

Jeddah

Madinah

Makkah

Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia


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MakkahIslam's holiest city

Over 16 million passengers travelled between Jeddah and

Makkah last year Makkah has 1.62

million permanent

inhabitants

At least once in a

lifetime, every

Muslim has to

perform the Hajj

2 million pilgrims visit

Makkah over the Hajj

period 2.5 million Ramadan

visitors

5 million visitors over

the rest of the year

7 million commuters


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Madinahthe second of Islams holy cities

Madinah is the second holiest

city in Islam

Madinah has close to one

million permanent inhabitants

Madinah is located 447 km

North of Makkah

3 million visitors to Madinah last year


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Seasonality of Traffic

Traffic is seasonal - peak periods during Hajj and Ramadan

Ramadan Hajj

CommutersPilgrims


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Key performance requirements

Dedicated new passenger line

Length: nearly 500km of new lines

Electrified

Gradient: up to 3.5%

Five minutes headway during peak hours between Jeddah &

Makkah

Proposed rail travel times:Jeddah Makkah: 30 minutes

Jeddah Madinah: 2 hours 30 minutes

Makkah Madinah: 3 hours


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Advisors to SRO

Financial

Technical

Legal

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Abdulaziz Al-Fahad


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SECTION 2

Traffic forecasts


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MMRLtraffic forecasts

Traffic forecasts supported by:

Historical data / Economic trends

Willingness to Pay Survey (by IPSOS) demonstrating inter

alia that 80% of all travellers would use the rail service

2010 2030

Traffic flows (millions of passengers)

Jeddah Makkah 19.2 28.1

Jeddah Madinah 2.9 4.3

Traffic volumes (billion passenger-km) 3.1 4.6

Source: SNCF International


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MMRLcorridor map

Jeddah

Madinah

Makkah

Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia


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SECTION 3

Implementation strategy


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Implementation strategy

The Supreme Economic Council has approved private sector

participation in the implementation of the MMRL Project

The Council assigned responsibilities as follows:

Inter-ministerial Steering Committee to supervise implementation,

chaired by the President of SRO

SRO to be Executing Agency

The concessionaire will design, finance, build and operate the

MMRL and will transfer it back to the Government after a pre-

agreed duration

Land required for the Project will be provided by the Government

The Government will provide support to the Project to make it

financially attractive to investors

MMRL will be implemented in the private sector


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Next steps

Project Day (Jeddah) Q1, 2006

Pre-qualification invitation Q1/Q2, 2006

Invitation to bid Q3, 2006

Concession award Q4, 2007

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