Najaf has an MoU for a monorail project to be built by some dodgy nigerian "company" TransGlobim ...

http://www.globim.com/gallery.html

ah. you couldn't make it up. I wonder how much the nigerians will scam out of them before they realise they've been had.

Is this a joke !! what on earth are they thinking !

I'm crossing my fingers for a late "April's Fools" joke sheytan lol

OH btw, it doesn't say anything about a monorail, It just says railroads

ya. its a monorail and its no joke... (its from last summer).

http://radionawa.com/(X(1)A(uzgeofzJygEkAAAAOTk0YTc4ZTQtNzQ1MS00ZDNlLWE5MzQtYWRmMzRhYzI0MjBkcrW11oHPO9yFXxghYWO9EpMhOIY1))/Ar/NewsDetailN.aspx?id=71731&LinkID=105

http://www.investorsiraq.com/showthread.php?t=138902 hahaha. here they call it a "canadian" company, because the nigerian one-man-show resides in canada :D

blah blah....

its only an MoU which means nothing in Iraq. I just hope they don't put up any cash any time soon.

مشروع قطار معلق بـ 300 مليون دولار يربط الاماكن المقدسة في النجف بمطارها ومرائبها
مشروع قطار معلق بـ 300 مليون دولار يربط الاماكن المقدسة في النجف بمطارها ومرائبها

المشاهدات : 153

وقعت محافظة النجف الاشرف عقدا مع شركة كندية لانشاء قطار معلق يربط الاماكن المقدسة في النجف والكوفة بمطار النجف ومرائب النقل .

وقال فاضل الفضل مدير هيئة استثمار النجف في تصريح لمراسل موقع نون ( بحضور محافظ النجف وعدد من المسئولين تم يوم الاحد الماضي توقيع عقد مع شركة كندية على تنفيذ مشروع قطار كهربائي معلق يربط الأماكن المقدسة في قضائي النجف والكوفة بمرائب النقل والمطار بكلفة 300 مليون دولار عل ان ينجز خلال عامين من تاريخ توقيع العقد..

موضحا بقوله : ان هيئة الاستثمار وقعت العقد مع شركة ترانس كلوبم الكندية المتخصصة في مجال النقل لإنشاء جسر معلق أحادي السكة هو الأول من نوعه في العراق والمنطقة ، وان المشروع ينفذ على مرحلتين الأولى لربط مسجد السهلة ومسجد الكوفة الذي يبعد مسافة واحد كيلومتر عنه ومرقد الإمام علي عليه السلام والكراج الشمالي والجنوبي في قضاء النجف.

اما المرحلة الثانية فتتتضمن ربط المشروع بمطار النجف الدولي ومنطقة الفرات الأوسط لأهميتها من الناحية السياحة الدينية..

وستوفر المرحلة الاول منه 1500 فرصة عمل فضلا عن تسهيل نقل الزوار وفك الاختناقات المرورية التي تشهدها المحافظة في الزيارات المليونية )

موقع نون خاص

this company "globim"

they bought their domain name in 2004.
http://www.whois.net/whois/globim.com

and they don't even have their own servers... its with a third party registrar....

iraqis are a joke :D

the above "example" is repeated across the entire range of "contracts" and "MoUs" signed by investment authorities across the country...

good LUCK!!!

Najaf is one of the risky place during the war... aside from Taiji and Basrah. Hope for coming years, this place will become the tourist one...

Najaf is one of the risky place during the war... aside from Taiji and Basrah. Hope for coming years, this place will become the tourist one...

hmmmm... depends on your perspective (i guess you were with the americans in their various bases, as opposed to being "in the cities"?). Najaf's been pretty quiet with the exception of that "ruffle" in 2004. why do you say that?

certainly walk in the park compared to diyala, anbar, samarra, nineweh and basra...

I'm confused :nuts: shouldn't they have some sort of bidding round before they contract out such a huge project.


As you said, if this is just a MoU then it's no big deal.

Najaf Monorail To Be Built By Canada’s TransGlobim

Canadian consortium TransGlobim International has been awarded a $600mn contract to build Iraq’s first monorail, in the city of Najaf. The system is intended to decrease congestion in the city, which is a major holy site for Shi'ite Muslims. The monorail will be 37km long and link the Imam Ali, Kufa and Sahla mosques of Najaf with two bus depots, with work expected to be completed over 24 months following surveying. The monorail is one of a number of major transport projects planned since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. In January, the Iraqi Ministry of Transport announced plans to construct a $3bn rail network around Baghdad, including a 112km loop line and two new passenger stations (MEES, 1 February).

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidv53n27-3NC12/Najaf%20Monorail%20To%20Be%20Built%20By%20Canada%26rsquo%3Bs%20TransGlobim/


Najaf, Iraq Monorail Sytem
Najaf is a city in Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad and is the second largest city in Iraq with an estimated population in 2008 of 1.2 million. Najaf is one of the holiest cities of Shia Islam as it is the home to the shrine of Imam Ali, Prophet Muhammad's martyred son-in-law. It is also the center of Shia political power in Iraq. The shrine of Imam Ali is the third holiest in the world for Shia Muslims and a major place of pilgrimage. The population of Iraq is estimated at 30 million and the major cities are Baghdad to the north and Basra to the south of Najaf. The main group within Iraq are the Shias who comprise 65% of the population. Up to 15 percent of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims are Shi'ite and over 60 million reside in neighbouring Iran who plan to increase the number of pilgrims visiting Holy Shi'ite sites in Iraq each year to 3 million.

On June 20, 2008, Najaf International Airport opened its doors to the first international flights directly into the holy city, a move which will increase the number of pilgrims that visit the Holy city of Najaf and neighbouring Kerbala. Metro Najaf is served by an under-developed and over used road network. There are no major highways within the city except one major artery that links the city to Kerbala in the south and Baghdad to the north. The dominant feature of the economic landscape is tourism, more specifically religious tourism to the Holy Mosque of Imam Ali and to the mosques of Kufa and Sahla.

Currently, Najaf hosts more than 5,000 visitors per day Saturday to Wednesday peaking to 20,000 visitors per day on the weekend (Thursday/Friday). On 20 major nights of the year, the city is host to over one million people per day. The net result is a pilgrim target market of approximately 70 million people annually. The region has enjoyed relative stability compared to city's to the North since the collapse of the pervious regime. This has allowed for rapid economic and employment growth.

In February 2010, the investment commission in Najaf signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a group of Korean and Iraqi companies to extract oil and conduct infrastructure projects worth over $22 billion U.S. dollars in the province. The project is expected to produce 400,000 barrels of oil per day and will provide the province with $400 million a year per Najaf Governor Adnan al-Zurfi.

System Specifications

37 km (of equivalent single track) monorail linking the three major mosques in Najaf; Imam Ali, Kufa, and Sahla, and linking the two main bus depots
Next phase will link the monorail to the new Najaf airport and further extension within the city of Najaf
Project entails finance, survey, design, construction, and operating the line
Concession period - 30 years
All guideway components will be pre-cast and assembled on site
Initially 5-6 minute headway between trains, moving to 2-3 minutes in heavy usage periods
Train capacity 400 to 420 people per train travelling 35 to 80 km/hr depending on station distance
Trains will be powered on a straddle system
Guideway design will accommodate blast protection
Project timelines 24 months to build after completion of survey and design
Total estimated project time: 30 – 36 months

http://www.globim.com/monorail.html

Congrats Najaf, Congrats Iraq!!!!

nigerian scam. see previous threads on this topic.

oh... who does that!
hahah thanks though for the heads up

what do you exatcly mean by nigerian scam? TransGlobim International , the news ..? because MEED reported it this week and they are a reliable source.

Imli

Check out their website, its a joke, they have no previous working experience. The owner is a Nigerian and only resides in Canada. The company is quite young and has no previous construction experience.

I'm speaking to my father in law who is connected, inshalla he will be able to expose them. The whole local government is corrupt in Najaf, but in Karbala they are much better.

some more "details" - and a render... anybody hear news of any actual construction????

http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Transglobim-monorail.jpg

http://www.globim.com/images/building1.jpg

Reuters reports that Iraq’s city of Najaf has awarded a Canadian company a $600 million contract to build the country’s first monorail.
Anwar al-Haboobi, a member of the Najaf investment committee, told Reuters the project will be only the second of its kind in the Middle East after Dubai. The contract was awarded to TransGlobim International (Globim), a privately-owned Canadian consortium.
The monorail is one of a number of large-scale infrastructure projects discussed by Iraqi officials since the fall of Saddam Hussein, including a plan for a multi-billion dollar Baghdad metro, none of which has yet been built. Najaf, one of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest sites, hosts hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at rites several times a year, jamming its mediaeval streets.
“This project will ease the transport crisis and the clogged streets in the province, especially during the blessed days of rituals,” Haboobi said.
The Najaf monorail project will be finished in three years and be carried out in two stages, Haboobi said. The Canadian company will build a power plant to run the train, he added.
TransGlobim lists the following specifications:
* 37 km (of equivalent single track) monorail linking the three major mosques in Najaf; Imam Ali, Kufa, and Sahla, and linking the two main bus depots
* Next phase will link the monorail to the new Najaf airport and further extension within the city of Najaf
* Project entails finance, survey, design, construction, and operating the line
* Concession period – 30 years
* All guideway components will be pre-cast and assembled on site
* Initially 5-6 minute headway between trains, moving to 2-3 minutes in heavy usage periods
* Train capacity 400 to 420 people per train travelling 35 to 80 km/hr depending on station distance
* Trains will be powered on a straddle system
* Guideway design will accommodate blast protection
* Project timelines 24 months to build after completion of survey and design
* Total estimated project time: 30 – 36 months

so not a scam after all?!

still a scam in my view!!

but at least we have some renders to dream with now :D

^^ :lol:

Najaf seems to have a lot of scams, its a shame i would like to see this city go far.

Najaf should be crowned the Iraqi "scam capital" and twinned with Lagos.

here's a new image from the najaf investment comission showing the multi storey monorail najaf-kufa interchange.

http://investnajaf.com/ar/thumbnail.php?file=lisence/74.jpg&size=article_medium

haha. its certainly a funky idea.

well. It seems this project is alive somehow????

here's a map that's been released of the Najaf Monorail Routes.

http://www.sclt.gov.iq/files/5.1.2010.jpg

Not bad, great find sheytan!

what i can gather from this.

there will be 2 lines of monorail.

The "green line" being a dual track north south, intersecting with the red line at the 20th revolution roundabout.

The "red line" has a single track around old Najaf to Safi al Safa station where it traverses around the shrine and turns around (kind of like the picadilly line underground in the UK at Heathrow airport).
It has a dual track through most of Najaf. And intersects with the new Samawa-Najaf-Karbala main line for rail traffic from north and south, and continues into Kufa, where it once again has a circular single-track route around the suburbs of Kufa.

That is indeed the most valuable post we had about this project, many thanks sheytan indeed

However, renders and a map is not enough evidence to show that it's not a scam to tell you the truth, we've all seen so many renders in the past of fantasy projects in Iraq.. (esp considering this is in Najaf, not exactly a good track history)

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http://www.investnajaf.com/ar/

thanks for the clip MrIraq :)


anyone here also thinks that it wouldn't really carry that many people.. like all monorails.. they're only for light traffic.. ??

they should build light rail instead :(

thanks for the clip MrIraq :)


anyone here also thinks that it wouldn't really carry that many people.. like all monorails.. they're only for light traffic.. ??

they should build light rail instead :(

if they build 'something' which is new, carries people, and moves ... thats good :P

^^ god I hope it's not as pathetic as the Sydney monorail if you've been on it

i wouldn't be too worried big dreamer. we both know this is a scam project :D

but at least the concept of it is interesting, and certainly they should have a tram/light rail in the future in Najaf and other medium sized cities in Iraq.

I just hope that its done in a more organised manner as i outlined in another thread. Select one main contract for the locomotives and build a factory in Iraq to churn them out for all the different cities tram networks. Do the same with the tracks / signals etc... benefiting from a cost reduction as well as justifying inward investment to build the trains and tracks locally.

^^ god I hope it's not as pathetic as the Sydney monorail if you've been on it

yeah i know sydney monorail, i never went on it thou.. inshallah its not that pathetic, i dont think it will be either, because the amount of ziwaar... it wouldnt be necisarry to just have something for good looks.

http://www.globim.com/gallery.html

seriously, anyone here heard of Globim Corporation ? why did they choose such an obscure company, All of their projects seem to be in Africa (I don't know if they are real projects or proposals!), do they have any international standing ?

I think they have started building it in 2011.

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well they certainly made a nice little animation. any news of concrete pouring? contractors? choice of monorail technology? etc...

well they certainly made a nice little animation. any news of concrete pouring? contractors? choice of monorail technology? etc...

Coming soon inshallah :angel1:

Monorail
Globim's monorail projects are driven by the need to assist Government alleviate social pressures to move passengers efficiently through urban areas. Globim believes that any new people-mover transportation system must be reasonable in implementation with affordable fare structures that is competitive with the current road transport. Therefore, Governments must view transportation systems going forward as self-sufficient businesses and revenue-generators for their jusidictions and not an added burden to the taxpayer.

Globim has developed a profitable business model approach to monorail systems that will put money in your pocket rather than be subsidized as is the case with almost all transit people-mover systems worldwide. Let Globim show you the way.

Najaf, Iraq Monorail Sytem
Najaf is a city in Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad and is the second largest city in Iraq with an estimated population in 2008 of 1.2 million. Najaf is one of the holiest cities of Shia Islam as it is the home to the shrine of Imam Ali, Prophet Muhammad's martyred son-in-law. It is also the center of Shia political power in Iraq. The shrine of Imam Ali is the third holiest in the world for Shia Muslims and a major place of pilgrimage. The population of Iraq is estimated at 30 million and the major cities are Baghdad to the north and Basra to the south of Najaf. The main group within Iraq are the Shias who comprise 65% of the population. Up to 15 percent of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims are Shi'ite and over 60 million reside in neighbouring Iran who plan to increase the number of pilgrims visiting Holy Shi'ite sites in Iraq each year to 3 million.

On June 20, 2008, Najaf International Airport opened its doors to the first international flights directly into the holy city, a move which will increase the number of pilgrims that visit the Holy city of Najaf and neighbouring Kerbala. Metro Najaf is served by an under-developed and over used road network. There are no major highways within the city except one major artery that links the city to Kerbala in the south and Baghdad to the north. The dominant feature of the economic landscape is tourism, more specifically religious tourism to the Holy Mosque of Imam Ali and to the mosques of Kufa and Sahla.

Currently, Najaf hosts more than 5,000 visitors per day Saturday to Wednesday peaking to 20,000 visitors per day on the weekend (Thursday/Friday). On 20 major nights of the year, the city is host to over one million people per day. The net result is a pilgrim target market of approximately 70 million people annually. The region has enjoyed relative stability compared to city's to the North since the collapse of the pervious regime. This has allowed for rapid economic and employment growth.

In February 2010, the investment commission in Najaf signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a group of Korean and Iraqi companies to extract oil and conduct infrastructure projects worth over $22 billion U.S. dollars in the province. The project is expected to produce 400,000 barrels of oil per day and will provide the province with $400 million a year per Najaf Governor Adnan al-Zurfi.

System Specifications

37 km (of equivalent single track) monorail linking the three major mosques in Najaf; Imam Ali, Kufa, and Sahla, and linking the two main bus depots Next phase will link the monorail to the new Najaf airport and further extension within the city of Najaf Project entails finance, survey, design, construction, and operating the line Concession period - 30 years All guideway components will be pre-cast and assembled on site Initially 5-6 minute headway between trains, moving to 2-3 minutes in heavy usage periods Train capacity 400 to 420 people per train travelling 35 to 80 km/hr depending on station distance Trains will be powered on a straddle system Guideway design will accommodate blast protection Project timelines 24 months to build after completion of survey and design Total estimated project time: 30 – 36 months

http://www.globim.com/monorail.html