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Ukraine plans major railway project under Belt and Road Initiative
Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-16 04:06:19|Editor: yan


KIEV, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine on Wednesday has unveiled a concept of a new railway project "China-Ukraine-EU (European Union)," which is aimed at unlocking Ukraine's transit potential under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.

The project, which envisages a construction of a 1,100-km-long high-speed railway line in Ukraine, was presented during a roundtable in Kiev entitled "High-speed railway and transit potential under the Belt and Road Initiative."

The roundtable, which brought together officials and experts from Ukraine and other Belt and Road countries, was organized by the Ukrainian association of Belt and Road cooperation "Silk Link" and "High-speed Rail Lines" association.

Serhii Rudkovskyi, the chairman of the board of the "High-speed Rail Lines" association, said that the project would help Ukraine to become an important transit link on the modern Silk Road by providing favorable conditions for movement of goods between China and the EU.

"We see that there is a need for this project. Currently, about 1 million containers can be delivered annually from China to the EU and in the opposite direction per year," Rudkovskyi told Xinhua.

Meanwhile, Victoria Yanovskaya, a professor at Kiev-based State University of Infrastructure and Technology, said that the planned "China-Ukraine-EU" project will contribute to the development of the Ukrainian economy.

"This project means the creation of new jobs, the further integration of Ukraine into the global economy, as well as the increase in tax revenues," Yanovskaya said.

According to her, the implementation of the project will help to create about 450,000 new jobs in Ukraine at the construction stage and about 70,000 jobs at the operational stage.

According to an optimistic scenario, the "China-Ukraine-EU" project with an estimated cost of 23 billion U.S. dollars could be implemented within seven years.

 

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BYD speeds up monorail mass transit system
By Guo Rong | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-08-21 09:39

The interior of the carriage of the SkyRail test line is seen at the headquarters of BYD in Shenzhen，South China’s Guangdong province, Aug 20, 2018. Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn

New energy carmaker BYD is speeding up to expand the market for its SkyRail monorail mass transit system to solve problems such as traffic congestion and air pollution.

After five years of research and development costing 5 billion yuan ($783 million), BYD launched its first commercial SkyRail line in Yinchuan, capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on Sept 1, and was upgraded to automatic driving last year.

The company has signed several domestic and international deals, including in the Philippines, Egypt, Brazil, Morocco and Cambodia.

BYD's director of President's Office Li Wei said the straddle-type monorail requires only one-fifth of the building cost and one-third of the construction time compared with a subway system.

Its one-way transportation capacity is 10,000 to 30,000 passengers each hour, she added.

With its concept of technology-based and innovation-oriented, BYD suggested to build a multi-dimensional transportation system to remove transportation from ground level and develop either overhead or underground transportation.

The SkyRail features BYD's proprietary iron-phosphate batteries, autonomous driving technology, small turning radius, low noise and a short time construction frame.

Passengers wait to board a monorail train of SkyRail in Yinchuan, capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on Sept 1, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]

The rail transit is now one of BYD's four key sectors, which also include electronics, automobile and new energy.

BYD’s new energy vehicles have landed in more than 200 cities across 50 countries and regions.

Since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed in 2013, the pace of BYD's globalization has been significantly accelerated, Li said.

In recent years, BYD has set up factories in the United States, Latin America and Asia Pacific countries, and its investment has been fully expanded, Li added.

BYD has 220,000 employees worldwide, 33 industrial parks at home and abroad, and has production bases in many countries including the United States, Brazil, Japan and India.

BYD is one of the leading companies located in Pingshan district of Shenzhen.

The district is located in the southeast end of " Guangzhou-Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Corridor ", with new energy (automobile) industry base, biological industry base, new industrialization demonstration base, export processing zones as four state-level signs.

It formed the industrial cluster including new energy (cars), biological medicine, and new generation of information technology and intelligent manufacturing as three leading industries.

 

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Dec 26, 2017 04:14 PM BUSINESS & TECH
Chinese Consortium Wants to Build Malaysia-Singapore Railway
By Lu Bingyang, Chen Lixiong and Teng Jing Xuan

A consortium, led by China Railway Corp., plans to submit a high-speed rail proposal that will emphasize China’s strengths in railway construction, including its experience building a high-speed railway in the tropics. Photo: Visual China

A consortium led by China Railway Corp. (CRC) intends to submit a proposal for the planned Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail that would link Malaysia with its southern neighbor, personnel from the national rail operator told Caixin.

Malaysia’s MyHSR Corp. and Singapore’s SG HSR Private Ltd., which were formed after the two countries’ governments signed a high-speed rail agreement last year, announced Wednesday that they would be accepting bids for a railway “assets company” until June 2018.

A deputy general manager of CRC, Huang Min, will lead a group of at least eight companies — including China Communications Construction Co. Ltd., China Investment Corp. and the Export-Import Bank of China — to work on a proposal, which has not been submitted yet, the CRC staffer told Caixin.

A number of companies from other countries, including Japan, South Korea, France and Germany, also intend to submit proposals, the staffer said.

The assets company will be tasked with designing, building, financing and maintaining the trains, tracks and communications systems for the high-speed railway, which is expected to be completed by 2026.

China Railway is very confident about the Chinese consortium’s chances, sources close to the state-owned operator said.

Chinese railway companies already have a significant presence in Southeast Asia. CRRC Corp., a member of the consortium and the world’s largest rolling stock manufacturer, makes more than 70% of the trains used in Malaysia, a CRRC staffer told Caixin. On Aug. 9, construction began on Malaysia’s 55 billion ringgit ($13.4 billion) East Coast Rail Link, which China Communications Construction is building.

The Chinese consortium’s planned high-speed rail proposal will emphasize China’s main strengths in railway construction, including the fact that it is the only country to have experience building a high-speed railway in the tropics (in Hainan province), sources said.

The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail will mark a major milestone for the Trans-Asian Railway, an ambitious United Nations project that since the 1950s has attempted to build a continuous link between Istanbul and Singapore. The new link is also important to China as part of the Singapore-Kunming Rail Link, a Belt and Road plan to plug Southeast Asia into China’s domestic high-speed rail network.

Kuala Lumpur and Singapore are currently seven hours apart by rail, and the 350-kilometer (217.5 mile) high-speed railway is expected to cut down the journey between the cities to 90 minutes, linking eight stations.

Malaysia, Singapore sign agreement to defer construction of high speed rail to 2020
Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-05 19:49:21|Editor: Yurou

Malaysia's Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali (C) and Khaw Boon Wan (L), Singaporean coordinating minister for infrastructure and minister for transport, attend a joint press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sept. 5, 2018. The government of Malaysia and Singapore signed an agreement on Wednesday to defer the construction of the high speed rail (HSR) project linking the two countries by two years till 2020. (Xinhua/Chong Voon Chung)

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- The government of Malaysia and Singapore signed an agreement on Wednesday to defer the construction of the high speed rail (HSR) project linking the two countries by two years till 2020.

At Malaysia's request and in the spirit of bilateral cooperation, Singapore has agreed to suspend the construction of the HSR project for a period up to May 31, 2020, according to the joint statement issued by the two countries.

The agreement was the result of weeks of "intense negotiations," said Malaysia's Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali, adding that "we have come to an agreement and we met all the concerns from Singapore and Malaysia."

Azmin signed and exchanged the legal documents on the deferment with Khaw Boon Wan, Singaporean coordinating minister for infrastructure and minister for transport in Malaysia's administration center of Putrajaya, witnessed by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and visiting Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean.

"Many Singaporeans have been looking forward to the realization of this project, and we remain committed to this project," Khaw told a joint press conference with Azmin after the signing ceremony.

"But we understand why Malaysia needs to temporarily suspend the construction of the HSR project," he said. "So even though the HSR bilateral agreement has no provisions for such a project suspension, but in the spirit of bilateral cooperation, Singapore has given Malaysia's request serious consideration," he added.

The deferment period till May 2020 is a negotiated figure between the two sides, said Khaw.

"From Singapore's point of view, there is a limit as to how far we can postpone the project," said Khaw, citing uncertainty in cost projection. "We think this is sort of a suspension period which we can try to manage," he said.

The governments of Malaysia and Singapore signed a legally-binding pact on the project in 2016 to build a high speed rail linking Malaysia's capital of Kuala Lumpur to the city state, which would cut travel time to 90 minutes once in operation.

However, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir announced shortly after taking office in May that the high speed rail would be dropped, citing high cost and low usage. He later changed tone that his country would seek deferment on the project, saying it has to pay a penalty of around 500 million ringgit (123.1 million U.S. dollars) to Singapore for the cancellation.

According to the agreement, Malaysia will bear the agreed cost in suspending the HSR project, despite earlier media report that Malaysia would not need to compensate Singapore.

"As suspension will involve some abortive costs, Malaysia will reimburse Singapore for the abortive costs," said Khaw.

If the project is not resumed after the suspension period, Malaysia will reimburse the cost incurred by Singapore in fulfilling the HSR project, he added.

Azmin said both parties agreed that the abortive costs that need to be paid by Malaysia government amounted to 15 million Singapore dollars (10.88 million U.S. dollars) and need to be paid before end of January 2019.

Although the agreed postponed period is two years, the commencement date of HSR service is expected to be pushed back to Jan. 1, 2031, instead of the original plan of Dec. 31, 2026.

Given the length of the suspension period, both sides will be calling off the ongoing international joint tender for the HSR Asset Company, which would be responsible for designing, building, financing, operating and maintaining all assets for the HSR project, according to the joint statement.

 

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Why Thailand is seeking Sino-Japanese cooperation in infrastructure
By Xu Liping Source:Global Times Published: 2018/9/19 19:38:41

Thailand's Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said recently that Japan plans to team up with China to invest in Thailand's infrastructure projects. Why does Thailand advocate cooperation between China and Japan? Can China and Japan explore a new model of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation on Southeast Asian high-speed rail projects?

Known as the "Land of Smiles," Thailand has done well in handling major power relations. It plays delicate balancing acts when making decisions to purchase weapons or introduce foreign investment.

That's why Thailand has proposed that a Japan-China consortium build a high-speed railway project which will link Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang and U-Tapao airports. Recent years have seen intensified competition between China and Japan in bidding for Thailand's high-speed railway projects. The proposal for China-Japan cooperation by Thailand is clearly aimed at seeking a new balance of interests between the two sides and winning itself more practical benefits.

Thailand also wants to share risks with China and Japan. The country is implementing Thailand 4.0, a bold and visionary 20-year national strategy, of which the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) is a flagship development project. The high-speed rail project linking three key airports is an important part of the EEC. The mega project, estimated to cost 224.5 billion baht (about $7.24 billion) and conducted under public-private partnership of 50 years, entails various risks. The Thai side hopes to draw on the strengths of both Chinese and Japanese enterprises to resolve the risks of the project.

Japan and China have their own advantages in developing economic and trade cooperation with Thailand and both have maintained cooperation with the Southeast Asian country. Japanese investment currently accounts for about 70 percent of the total foreign investment in Thailand, focusing on areas such as the automobile, electrical and electronics and service industries, while Chinese investment is quickly expanding in areas including equipment manufacturing, finance, agriculture, textile and mining. China is the biggest trading partner of Thailand now. Given the special relations between China, Japan and Thailand, Bangkok is an ideal place for Beijing and Tokyo to expand third-party market cooperation.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship and has witnessed a thaw in bilateral relations. During the visit to Japan by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in May, the two sides signed the Memorandum on Cooperation between China and Japan in Third-Party Market and agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the third-party market. This has created a favorable environment and provided a sound political foundation for the two to carry out cooperation on Thailand's high-speed rail project.

The two parties also agreed to establish a cross-department working mechanism on promoting China-Japan cooperation in third-party markets under China-Japan economic high-level dialogue mechanism, and hold "Forum on China-Japan Cooperation in the Third-Party Markets" together with economic organizations.

On May 31, a seminar about China-Japan third-party cooperation on the EEC was held in Bangkok, during which representatives from governments and enterprises of the three countries discussed the possibility of cooperation.

China and Japan have their own strengths in high-speed rail construction in terms of capital, technology, talent, project management and construction materials. Enterprises from the three countries have begun to study how to draw on both sides' strengths.

A new model of cooperation that is market-oriented and mutually beneficial and allows enterprises to play the leading role should be set up and be promoted to regions including Southeast Asia and Africa.

The author is a research fellow with National Institute of International Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn

 

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Feature: China-constructed urban railway in Vietnam on horizon
Source: Xinhua | 2018-09-21 09:36:34 | Editor: huaxia

Photo taken on Sept. 20, 2018 shows a scene of trial operation of Vietnam's first urban railway in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Xinhua/Ngo Minh Tien)

by Tao Jun, Bui Long

HANOI, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's first urban railway, constructed by China Railway Sixth Group Co. Ltd, started its trial operation on Thursday.

The Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated rail line in Vietnam's Hanoi capital is scheduled to run on a pilot basis for three to six months before commercial operation which is expected to start before lunar new year festival (early February 2019).

Urban railway is a new means of transport in Vietnam, transporting a large number of passengers in a convenient and comfortable way, Nguyen Ngoc Dong, Vietnamese deputy minister of transport, said on Thursday when he took part in checking and supervising its trial operation.

The trial operation is a milestone in the urban railway project before the rail line is put into use, he stated.

"I think that technical aspects will be OK. The only issue is management work, how to build up apparatus, master techniques and procedures needed to operate the rail line, and organize transport connections," the deputy minister said.

Hanoi has a big population, so it should develop at least three urban rail lines and more bus routes to link its urban transport systems, he stated.

Vietnam and China are cooperating to implement some programs and projects on railway development and connection.

"China has developed urban railways very quickly," and the country currently has up to 27,000 km of high-speed railway, accounting for nearly one half of the world's total, the deputy minister said while comfortably sitting in an air-conditioned green train to participate in evaluating its trial operation.

Photo taken in the carriage of Vietnam's first urban railway shows a landscape of Hanoi,Vietnam, on Sept. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Ngo Minh Tien)

From Thursday, 13 four-carriage trains are scheduled to run on a pilot basis transporting passengers for a total distance of more than 13 km through 12 stations in the three districts of Ha Dong, Thanh Xuan and Dong Da in 30 minutes.

Trains run on both directions and they depart at interval of 10 minutes. Each train stops at each station for one minute.

An air-conditioned train, whose length is some 80m, can accommodate up to 1,000 people. Each carriage is some 19m long, 2.8m wide and 3.8m high.

After taking a short ride, the Vietnamese deputy minister got off the train at Van Quan Station, and entered a control room full of computers and technical boards on its walls.

One of the big boards bears a Vietnamese sentence "Diagram of Electricity Supply System for Urban Railway in Hanoi, Vietnam". Another board features buttons, switches and name tags which say "Escalator", "Anti-fire pump" and "Smoke-discharging fan".

Chinese technicians in the room, mostly handsome guys wearing short-sighted glasses, glued their eyes to computer screens, while Dong and Vietnamese reporters listened to presentations about technical issues.

According to Vu Hong Phuong, vice head of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong railway project management unit, the railway's trial operation is of significance because it ensures safe and sound commercial operation to serve people in the next few months.

"We are checking the smooth combination of equipment in the whole system. We are also completing final steps such as decoration and equipment, including stairways, escalators and elevators," Phuong said.

Regarding personnel for the urban railway, a number of Vietnamese people have been sent to China for training, and others have been trained in Vietnam, Phuong said, noting that they will gradually master relevant technologies and techniques to well manage, operate and maintain the whole railway system.

"The trains' average speed is 35 km per hour," although they can run at twice of that speed, he said, noting that the short distance of some 1 km between two adjacent stations make it hard for trains to travel at their maximum speed.

Inside one train on Thursday, many local reporters were busy taking photos, shooting videos, or livestreaming elevated trains and their trial operations. Major Vietnamese media outlets, including Vietnam News Agency and online newspaper VnExpress posted many nice photos and videos about the trains on the move.

Hu Suojin, commercial counselor of the Chinese embassy in Vietnam, said Vietnam's first urban railway, constructed by China Railway Sixth Group Co. Ltd using Chinese ODA and Vietnamese reciprocal capital, will help ease transport pressure in Hanoi, contributing to the closer all-round cooperation between the two countries.

Photo taken on Sept. 20, 2018 shows a scene of trial operation of Vietnam's first urban railway in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Xinhua/Wang Di)

In August, during a test run of Cat Linh-Ha Dong rail line, many Vietnamese people were invited to board trains. They were eager to see designated areas for people with mobility disabilities. Seats for the elderly, pregnant women and children are highlighted in yellow color, while steel holders are there to make sure safe positions for standing passengers.

"The train is clean and cool. Unlike roads with traffic lights and frequent congestions below, it runs fairly fast and smoothly. I hope more urban rail routes like this will be built in Hanoi and other localities," Nguyen Anh Duc, an 11th-grade student of Cao Ba Quat High School in Hanoi's Gia Lam district, told Xinhua.

Duc, whose father works as a driver for the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway project, said he is studying hard to be admitted to the Automobile Technology Faculty of the Hanoi University of Industry.

"I want to develop advanced vehicles for both personal use and mass transport. I do not want people to think that going on roads in Hanoi is a nightmare. I want daily trips are relaxing," the young man boasted, grinning from ear to ear.

 

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Why trackless trams are ready to replace light rail
September 26, 2018 5.58am AEST

CRRC Zhuzhou Institute developed the rubber-tyred autonomous rail transit (ART) system, or trackless tram, which has already been trialled in Zhuzhou, China.

Author

Peter Newman
Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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I began my life as an activist academic in 1979 when the Western Australian government closed the Fremantle railway, saying buses would be better. Patronage immediately fell by 30% and I ran a four-year campaign to save the railway. We won. I have been writing books and running campaigns ever since on why trains and trams are better than buses. But I have changed my mind. The technology has changed, and I think it will end the need for new light rail.

“Trackless trams” are based on technology created in Europe and China by taking innovations from high-speed rail and putting them in a bus.

I went to China to check out the CRRC trackless tram (they call it autonomous rail transit, or ART). I came back convinced it’s a transformative transit technology.


---> Why trackless trams are ready to replace light rail | The Conversation AU

 

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Chinese railway engineering firms hand over 4 bridges to Laos
Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-27 20:03:45|Editor: Yang Yi

Lao Minister of Public Works and Transport Bounchan Sinthavong (C) poses with representatives of the Laos-China Railway Company, China Railway No. 2 Group (CREC2) and China Power, who were commended in an order signed by Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, during a handing-over ceremony in Vientiane, Laos, on Sept. 26, 2018. Chinese engineering companies, which are building China-Laos railway in northern Laos, have handed over four bridges to the Lao government. (Xinhua/Liu Ailun)

VIENTIANE, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese engineering companies, which are building China-Laos railway in northern Laos, have handed over four bridges to the Lao government.

A handing-over ceremony was held on Wednesday in Lao Ministry of Public Works and Transport in capital Vientiane.

Li Bingxuan, director general of the Laos-China Railway Company, the China-Laos joint venture in charge of the construction and operation of China-Laos railway, briefed the construction and completion of the four bridges in Attapeu Province in southern Laos, and handed over them to the Laos side.

To honor the achievement and contribution of the Chinese engineering companies, Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith signed an order of commendation for the Laos-China Railway Company, China Railway No. 2 Group (CREC2) and China Power.

On behalf of the government, Lao Minister of Public Works and Transport Bounchan Sinthavong, conferred development medals to the three companies.

The fracture of saddle dam D, one of five auxiliary dams at the under-construction Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower project, some 560 km southeast of Lao capital Vientiane, resulted in massive flooding on July 23 which has killed 40 people with 97 remaining missing. Over 6000 more have been left homeless.

The Chinese engineering companies along the China-Laos railway construction sites proactively responded to the Lao government's request, donating cash and materials to the disaster-hit areas and offering assistance to urgently build four bridges for the access to the flooded villages of Attapeu Province, Li Bingxuan told Xinhua on Thursday.

In less than 50 days, the CREC2 and Sinohydro Bureau 10 under China Power, with the guidance from the Laos-China Railway Company, completed the construction of four brand new bridges in southern Laos' flooded Attapeu.

 

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China, Myanmar sign MoU on feasibility study of Muse-Mandalay railway
Source: Xinhua| 2018-10-23 00:25:53|Editor: mym

Managing Director of the Myanma Railways U Thurein Win(R, front) signs a document with Zhu Ying (L in front), president of China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co. Ltd, during a signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Oct. 22, 2018. China and Myanmar signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday to conduct feasibility study of a railway linking Muse, a border town in Myanmar's northeastern Shan state, with Mandalay, the country's second largest city in the north. (Xinhua/U Aung)

NAY PYI TAW, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- China and Myanmar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday to conduct feasibility study of a railway linking Muse, a border town in Myanmar's northeastern Shan state, with Mandalay, the country's second largest city in the north.

Under the MoU, inked between China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co. Ltd and state-run Myanma Railways, the feasibility study will be conducted within two years covering environmental and social impact assessment.

The project is expected to reduce transportation cost, contribute to socio-economic development while conforming to environmental conservation, Myanmar Transport and Communication Minister U Thant Zin Maung said during the signing ceremony.

He said the railway, part of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, is economically and strategically important, and will contribute to the two countries' long-term paukphaw (fraternal) friendship.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Hong Liang said the railway project will inject new energy into the development of China's Belt and Road initiative and the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor.

Hong hoped that the railway will contribute to Myanmar's economic development and peace and stability of northern Myanmar.

The railway extends 431 km with a designed speed of 160 km per hour. It will run through important towns in the country's north and some economic hubs.

 

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China’s CRRC Sifang to Sell 13 Trains to Chile
LIAO SHUMIN
DATE: MON, 10/29/2018 - 13:52 / SOURCE:YICAI

China’s CRRC Sifang to Sell 13 Trains to Chile​

(Yicai Global) Oct. 29 -- Chinese locomotive firm CRRC Sifang and its Chilean partner have won a bid to supply a Chilean state-owned railway company with over 10 trains to be placed in central Chile.

CRRC Sifang will provide the Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado with 13 trains, consisting of 36 units, the Qingdao-based firm said in a press release on Oct. 26. The vehicles will go to the regions of Araucania and Biobio. CRRC Sifang and Chile's Temoinsa formed a consortium to submit the tender.

The Chinese firm did not disclose the price of the contract that was opened for bidding in November 2017.

The deal marks another breakthrough in South America since CRRC Sifang's intercity high-speed train project in Argentina and urban transit train supply contracts in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the press release added.

CRRC Sifang, a unit of state-owned rolling stock firm CRRC Corp., makes up 44 percent of China’s high-speed rail vehicle market share. By the end of last year, it received more than 5,000 overseas orders from more than 20 countries and regions, including the US and Indonesia.

 

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China’s CRRC Sifang to Sell 13 Trains to Chile
LIAO SHUMIN
DATE: MON, 10/29/2018 - 13:52 / SOURCE:YICAI

China’s CRRC Sifang to Sell 13 Trains to Chile​

(Yicai Global) Oct. 29 -- Chinese locomotive firm CRRC Sifang and its Chilean partner have won a bid to supply a Chilean state-owned railway company with over 10 trains to be placed in central Chile.

CRRC Sifang will provide the Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado with 13 trains, consisting of 36 units, the Qingdao-based firm said in a press release on Oct. 26. The vehicles will go to the regions of Araucania and Biobio. CRRC Sifang and Chile's Temoinsa formed a consortium to submit the tender.

The Chinese firm did not disclose the price of the contract that was opened for bidding in November 2017.

The deal marks another breakthrough in South America since CRRC Sifang's intercity high-speed train project in Argentina and urban transit train supply contracts in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the press release added.

CRRC Sifang, a unit of state-owned rolling stock firm CRRC Corp., makes up 44 percent of China’s high-speed rail vehicle market share. By the end of last year, it received more than 5,000 overseas orders from more than 20 countries and regions, including the US and Indonesia.

First order ever from Chile?

 

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First order ever from Chile?

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Chinese engineering company digs 1st over-1000m railway tunnel in Laos
Source: Xinhua| 2018-10-29 00:40:04|Editor: xuxin

Workers from China Railway No. 5 Engineering Group (CREC 5) celebrate the completing of the first over-1000-meter tunnel along the China-Laos railway in Luang Namtha province, Laos, on Oct. 28, 2018. Chinese engineering company completed on Sunday the first over-1000-meter tunnel along the China-Laos railway. Nateuy No. 1 Tunnel, some 360 km north of Lao capital Vientiane, is located in the northern Lao province of Luang Namtha bordering China in the north. (Xinhua/China Railway No. 5 Engineering Group)

VIENTIANE, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese engineering company completed on Sunday the first over-1000-meter tunnel along the China-Laos railway.

Nateuy No. 1 Tunnel, some 360 km north of Lao capital Vientiane, is located in the northern Lao province of Luang Namtha bordering China in the north.

Huang Zongwen, a senior official with the China Railway No. 5 Engineering Group (CREC 5), which is in charge of the tunnel's construction, told Xinhua the construction of the Nateuy No. 1 Tunnel, with 1158 meters, was started on June 3, 2017.

"That the tunnel passes soft rocks all the way in the mountain, brought some difficulties in construction and especially, affected the digging pace," Huang said.

In December 2017, Ban Somsanook No. 2 Tunnel with a length of 301 meters in Laos' Vientiane Province, was bored by the Chinese project contractor Sino Corporation Engineering Bureau 15 Co., Ltd., and became the first completed tunnel along the China-Laos railway route, and the first road and railway tunnel in Lao history.

The China-Laos railway is being promoted by the leaders of the two countries as a project of interconnectivity. Since the commencement of construction in December 2016, the building of tunnels, bridges, roadbeds and other sections has progressed smoothly.

The China-Laos railway has a total length of more than 414 km comprising 60 percent of bridges and tunnels (around 198 km), linking Mohan-Boten border gate in northern Laos and the capital of Vientiane.

The operating speed of trains on the route is designed to be 160 km per hour. The railway is expected to be fully operational in December 2021.

 

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CRRC Zhuzhou’s Turkey deal
Source:Global Times Published: 2018/10/30 21:48:42

CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co signed a contract worth $500 million with the government of Istanbul, Turkey on Friday, thepaper.cn reported on Tuesday.

The light rail vehicles will be used for Istanbul's airport line, and they will comply with global railway industry standards, the report said.

Since 2009, the Chinese company has reached several cooperation agreements on railway projects and the latest agreement will further advance bilateral tie-ups, media reports said.

 

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CRRC to Build Rolling Stock R&D Base in Johannesburg
ZHANG YUSHUO
DATE: WED, 11/07/2018 - 12:19 / SOURCE:YICAI

CRRC to Build Rolling Stock R&D Base in Johannesburg​

(Yicai Global) Nov. 7 -- A unit under the world’s largest rolling stock manufacturer, Chinese state-owned CRRC, has struck a deal with the University of the Witwatersrand to build a research and development center in Johannesburg, the biggest city in its largest export market.

The joint research base will study new technologies for rail transport equipment, talent cultivation and international events, CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive told China News Service.

CRRC Zhuzhou has won USD2.5 billion worth of supply bids in South Africa since bagging its first contract there in 2012, and has signed deals to ship some 554 vehicles there. The new research center will be CRRC’s 14th across the globe, joining existing bases in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and other countries.

The subsidiary began expanding overseas in 1997 and has sold trains for city railway systems in 10 countries, including India, South Africa and Malaysia. It has also competed for more than 40 projects spanning Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and made CNY8.8 billion (USD1.3 billion) in revenue from overseas sales in 2015.

 

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Ukraine offers China Railways to invest in subway, bridge and high-speed rail link

Wednesday, 26 April, 2017 - 14:12 (EEST)

The Ukrainian government on Tuesday offered China Railway International Group (CRIG) a number of infrastructure investment opportunities, including the fourth line of the Kyiv Metro and the construction of a bridge, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade wrote on Twitter, Global Construction Review reports.

The ministry published two tweets to say that it had held talks with CRIG, and that the Chinese giant was ”ready to invest in Ukrainian infrastructure.”

It continued: ”We can offer six projects for investment, in particular a new bridge in Kyiv and the fourth line of the subway,” GCR reports.

The present metro system, which opened in 1960, has 52 stations divided between three routes. The fourth Podilsko-Vyhurivska line would run southwest to northeast, crossing the Dnipro at the future business center of Rybalskiy Island.

The Kyiv Council expects the construction of the line to cost about $1.3 billion. According to the Ukrainian News agency, CRIG has offered to pay for 85% of the cost.

This news follows on from reports in the Kyiv Pravda online newspaper last week that CRIG was interested in building a high-speed rail link between Kyiv Central Railway Station and Boryspil International Airport.

The report quoted the Ministry of Economic Development as saying the Chinese company was interested in the Air Express project, and that it planned to hold meetings with the company on April 24.

CRIG is a subsidiary of China Railways, the second largest construction company in the world, according to the Engineering News-Record.

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Chinese company completes feasibility study for Kyiv's fourth subway line construction project
09.11.2018 14:00

China Railway International Group has confirmed the completion of the preliminary feasibility study for a project to build the fourth subway line in Kyiv, Deputy Head of the Kyiv City Administration Dmytro Davtyan has said.

"... Together with representatives of the Ukrainian delegation, I met with the leadership of China Railway International Group. I received an official letter from the head of the company's board, which officially confirmed the completion of the preliminary feasibility study for the construction of the fourth subway line," he wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.

According to him, the Chinese company also provided a pre-feasibility study, which will be presented in Kyiv.

Earlier Kyiv City Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that the construction of the fourth subway line will begin after the completion of the Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge and will last five years. The cost of construction is estimated at $2 billion. At the same time, it is proposed to provide 85% of the project's projected cost through a loan from Chinese financial institutions.


Chinese company completes feasibility study for Kyiv's fourth subway line construction project | Interfax-Ukraine