China Rail Cons announced that it has won the bid for the construction general contract (Section III) for the Fuzhou Metro Line 5 (Phase I). The city is the capital of Fujian province. The contract has a construction period of 1,553 calendar days. The total bid price amounted to approximately RMB4.227 billion (EUR 536 million).…
Photo taken on Sept. 16, 2017 shows the site of a railway-build agreement signing ceremony between Bangladeshi and Chinese firms, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Two Bangladeshi and two Chinese firms have signed two joint venture pacts to build over 100-kilometer rail lines and required infrastructure in the country’s southeast Cox’s Bazar district bordering Myanmar. (Xinhua/Salim Reza)…
HANGZHOU, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) — China’s first public-private partnership (PPP) funded high-speed railway saw its financing contract signed on Monday. Fosun Group leads the consortium of eight private firms that hold 51 percent stake in the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taizhou project. State-owned China Railway, Zhejiang Communications Investment Group, and local government hold the rest. The 269-km railway project…
Guests experience simulated driving of high-speed train at an achievement exhibition on the technology of China’s high-speed railway during the China-Arab States Expo 2017 in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Sept. 6, 2017. (Xinhua/Zhang Chen) People visit an achievement exhibition on the technology of China’s high-speed railway during the China-Arab…
Source: Xinhua BANGKOK, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) — To Thailand, the ongoing ninth BRICS summit means much. The summit is expected to witness the signing of draft contracts of a railway project vital to the Southeast Asian nation. Let alone that Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is attending the dialogues on political and security issues…
BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — China’s summer transport peak period ended Thursday, with nearly 600 million of passenger trips made by train this year, according to China Railway Corporation. The period runs from July 1 to August 31, when students on summer vacation have time to travel or return home. “During the transport peak, even…
Rescue members work at the site of the train derailment at the Dortmund Central Railway Station in Dortmund, Germany, on May 1, 2017. Two persons were slightly injured in the train derailment in Dortmund, a city in Germany’s state of North Rhine-Westphalia. (Xinhua/Ulrich Hufnagel) BERLIN, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — The German Federal Criminal Police…
VIENTIANE, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — The Laos-China Railway Company announced on Sunday that the China-Laos railway project has entered the phase of comprehensive construction in an orderly and effective way. The announcement was made by Zhao Xiang, director general of the Laos-China Railway Company, at a gathering here to commend the progress achieved so far…
Source: Xinhua BANGKOK, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) — Thai cabinet on Tuesday approved the draft design contract of the Thailand-China railway project to pave the way for the signing early next month. “Thailand will use this contract to hire China’s state enterprise to do the detailed design for the railway project, including elevated tracks, tunnels, bridges…
by Abdul Haleem, Fathulbari KABUL, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — The landlocked Afghanistan, according to officials, is rich with untapped treasures, precious and semi-precious minerals, that can rebuild and take the country towards prosperity if extracted and utilized properly. One of the almost untapped natural treasures in Afghanistan is marble that has been extracted, mostly with…