SAUDI ARABIA: Alstom confirmed to Railway Gazette International on February 5 that it had submitted an offer for the contract to design and build Riyadh metro Line 7.
The Royal Commission for Riyadh City originally set a submission deadline of March 2025 for the Line 7 tender, but the date has since been postponed several times, most recently in December 2025 when it was pushed back to the end of January.
According to local media reports, the following consortia have submitted bids:
- Alstom, Webuild and Nesma;
- Siemens Mobility, FCC, Freyssinet Contracting and Almabani;
- Hitachi Rail, Larsen & Toubro, local contractor Albawani and Turkey’s Kalyon Inşaat and Cengiz;
- CRRC with Turkish firms Mapa and Limak.
No other contenders responded to enquiries.
The 65 km first phase of the orbital Line 7 would run around the northwest quadrant of the capital, linking King Khalid International Airport in the north to Qiddiya Entertainment City in the west. En route, it would serve the Diriyah Gate development and the new Murabba district. The line is expected to have have 19 stations, including interchanges to the existing lines 3 and 4, as well as a planned extension of Line 2.
Riyadh’s six-line metro network totalling 176 km route-km was inaugurated in phases from between November 27 2025 and January 5.
- Read more about the Riyadh metro network and expansion plans in the March 2026 issue of Railway Gazette International.
