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Chinese firms study rail route to Cambodian border |
Two Chinese firms have submitted a feasibility study for building a
rail route in Vietnam linking southern hub Ho Chi Minh City with
Binh Phuoc to its northwest.
The China Railway Construction Corporation and the China Machinery
Import and Export Corporation have forged a partnership for the
project.
The study for the 128.5-km route to the Vietnam-Cambodia border has
been submitted to Vietnam’s Transport Ministry. It is
estimated to cost US$438 million. The track will allow passenger
trains to run at up to 120 km per hour.
Construction is scheduled to start in 2010 or earlier if funding is
secured. The route will be part of the 5,500-km Trans-Asia railway
beginning in Kunming in China’s Yunnan province, and
traveling through Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and
Malaysia before terminating in Singapore.
The project, initiated by Malaysia in 1995, is expected to be
completed in 2015.
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