Leading trading house Marubeni and train maker Niigata Transys have announced that they will supply Myanmar Railways with 24 new cars of diesel-electric multiple units. The value of the deal is USD 64 million.
Myanmar Railways is working on a project aimed at modernizing the systems on the existing railway line between the countrys biggest city of Yangon and the second largest commercial city of Mandalay. The 24 cars will be used for a section of the line that runs from Yangon to Taungoo. It currently takes 7 hours to travel between those two cities, but the ongoing project will shorten the time to 3 hours and 20 minutes.
Marubeni plans to start delivering the train cars in 2020. It also plans to provide training for the engineers who are responsible for maintenance.
Illustrations of the proposed Yangon Central Railway. / Oxley Holdings
YANGON A consortium including a Singapore-listed company has won the bidding for the Yangon Central Railways Station Area Comprehensive Development Project, Myanma Railways said.
The consortium comprises Myanmars Min Dharma Co, Chinas Sino Great Wall Co, and Singapore-based property developer Oxley Holdings Limited.
The mixed-development project comprises a new central transportation hub integrating rail and mass transit, surrounded by residential and commercial properties. It will occupy 25.7 hectares, with total floor space for development of 1.09 million sq. m, Oxley Holdings said.
Awarding of the contract is subject to the completion of negotiations and legal arrangements, Myanma Railways said.
Sino Great Wall is a Beijing-based company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Min Dharma Co is a subsidiary of Mottama Holdings owned by Chinese-Myanmar businessman Yang Ho.
Illustrations provided by Oxley Holdings show high-rise buildings bordered by Bogyoke Aung San Road to the south, Bo Min Yaung Road to the north, Sule Pagoda Road to the west and Theinbyu Road to the east.
YANGON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The state-run Myanmar Railways has begun a project of upgrading the Yangon circular railway with the first section in the western Yangon commuter rail network, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported Friday.
The western Yangon commuter network runs from Insein to Tanyingone station and the 6-km sectional project, which started on Wednesday, is expected to complete by the end of May.
The second part of the project, which will renovate the 8.8-km railway between Insein and Kyeemyindaing stations, will start on Oct. 1 and is expected to be finished by the end of January 2019.
The third part of the project, which renovates the 4.4-km railway between Kyeemyindaing and Yangon stations, will commence on Feb. 1, 2019 and be completed in March of the year.
The upgrading project, to be carried out under the management of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, will be funded with 206 million U.S. dollars from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) as an overseas development assistance loan and 94.76 million U.S. dollars from the national fund.
The project aims to increase the numbers of passengers and reduce running and waiting hours.
The running hours of the full circuit of the circular train will be reduced by an hour after the upgrading while it currently takes about three hours.
Out of 2.5 million passengers using public transportation, about 90,000 people use railway transport in Yangon region daily.
YANGON, MYANMAR Myanmar has begun upgrading the six-decade-old railway loop in its former capital Yangon with official development assistance from Japan.
Tokyo will provide $207 million for the $301 million project, which is designed to shorten the round-trip travel time to two hours from three. More commuters are using trains to avoid traffic congestion in the city, according to Myanmar Railways.
Work on the western portion of the 29.5-mile (47-km) loop is set to be completed in March 2019 by local contractor A1 Group of Companies and its Chinese partner Sinohydro Corp. The eastern portion is scheduled for completion in 2022 by local contractor Shwe Taung.
Htun Aung Thin, general manager of Myanmar Railways, predicts daily passengers will nearly triple to 260,000 from 90,000 after the upgrade.
The work will not disturb the current double-track passenger service as runs will continue on a single track, he said.
Zaw Lwin, divisional traffic manager at the state-backed railway, said the project will greatly support urban transportation in Yangon in the future.
The circular line was built during the British colonial period and was upgraded to double tracks in 1958.
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