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Iraq’s Ministry of Transport is doing a feasibility study of modifying the scope of a planned freight railway line extending from Baghdad to Faysh Khabur to Turkey via Erbil or Dohuk at the request of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
Ministry spokesperson Hussein Jalil Al-Rubaie told Zawya Projects that KRG requested the scope be amended to include passenger transport in addition to freight.
He said a tripartite meeting was held between the officials of Iraqi Republic Railways, KRG’s transport ministry and Turkey where it was agreed to limit cross-border carriage on the new railway line to freight.
(Reporting by Majda Muhsen; Editing by Anoop Menon)
