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Syrian Railways Company Generates Millions of Dollars from Solidere Lebanon

08-11-2022

The Hijaz Railways Organisation recently announced that it generated thousands of dollars in cash and millions of dollars in shares from its investments in Solidere, the company established by the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Al-Hariri in 1994 to rebuild and develop Beirut after the Lebanese civil war.

Tourism Projects Progress Incrementally

18-10-2022

This month, the government inaugurated a five-star hotel in Damascus and laid the foundation stones for three other projects in the capital and the coast, as it seeks to attract investment in a foreign currency-generating industry.

China Makes Offer for Suburban Rail Project in Syria’s Badly-Damaged Railway Sector

02-12-2020

A Chinese state-run company has made an offer to finance, build and develop a railway project that would link the Syrian capital with its suburbs through four rail lines, state media reported this week.

Upscale Tourism Investments Unlikely to Take Off

10-06-2020

The government has signed two contracts for large investments in the tourism sector reminiscent of similar projects from the pre-2011 era. However, the significant deterioration of the business environment since that time raises doubts about their feasibility.

Syrian Railways Company to Claim Land it Owns Since Ottoman Times

13-11-2019

The Syrian government has announced that it is generating money from property it owns in Lebanon and is seeking to retake possession of land it has owned in Jordan and Saudi Arabia since the time of the Ottoman Empire.

Syria’s new Car Registration Plates to Generate Billions to the Government

17-11-2014

Syria has adopted a new car license plates design, whose introduction will generate billions of Syrian pounds to the government.

Library

Profile: Hijaz Railways Organisation

24-01-2023

In this profile, The Syria Report provides an overview of the Hijaz Railways Organisation, the country's second railway operator.

Report: Syria’s Railways

11-01-2022

This report provides an overview of Syria’s railway sector from the early 2000s until today. It sheds light on the sector prior to the Syrian uprising; the many projects that coincided with President Bashar Al-Assad’s ambition of transforming the country into the region’s transport hub; the damages to the sector caused by the decade-long conflict; and the challenges to the sector’s reconstruction.

Companies

Hijaz Railways Organisation

20-03-2019

The Hijaz Railways Organisation (HRO) is one of two state-owned railway companies operating in Syria, the other being the Syrian Railways Organisation (SRO).