In 2014 and likely for the next 10 years, commercial opportunities for the Middle East will be in the GCC, and the GCC is open for business.
GCC governments are funding a 2,117-kilometre (km) rail network linking Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Oman by 2018. The states have also committed to 8,000km of additional tracks within their own borders across freight, passenger and light rail by 2020.