Crossing over the Strait of Tiran

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Strait of Tiran , region of the proposed project
The Strait of Tiran and Tiran Island in the Red Sea

The Strait of Tiran crossing is a proposal to connect Egypt and Saudi Arabia with a causeway and bridge over the Strait of Tiran . The entire project would be nearly four billion US dollars cost. The crossing would connect Tabuk in Saudi Arabia and the resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula on the Red Sea and pass Tiran at the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba .

In the spring of 2016, the Saudi King Salman Abdul Aziz Al Saud said after a visit to Cairo that the plan should be implemented in connection with the major Neom project .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Conrad Egbert: Tenders for $ 4bn Saudi-Egypt causeway this year , Arabian Business, March 1, 2008
  2. ↑ Saudi Arabia and Egypt announce a bridge over the Red Sea. In: www.israelnetz.com. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .