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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to officially launch the new standard gauge railway that will connect the coastal city of Mombasa and the capital city, Nairobi, on the 31st of May.
Uhuru is expected to hold an event at the container terminal at the port in Mombasa on 30th before taking the train ride from Mombasa to Nairobi the following day. The President will commission the newly built terminus before takeoff and the terminuses on stop overs.
A Chinese delegation from the Asian county’s State Council will be at the launch.
“China who provided the funds through loans that the SGR was built will be sending a senior delegation of the State Council at that launch,” State House Spokesperson Manoah Esipisu said Sunday during his weekly press briefing at the State House.
President Kenyatta has secured funding from the Export-Import Bank of China to continue with the building of the railway line from Naivasha to Kisumu city (third largest city in Kenya on Lake Victoria) where the government intends to build a new port.
“The President reached agreements on new partnership with China and some of those agreements include support for funding for the Exim Bank of China for the next phase of the SGR that will take it from Naivasha to Kisumu,” said the State house spokesperson.
The Kenya Railway Corporation (KRC has estimated that the Nairobi- Naivasha section of the SGR will cost about US $ 1.5 billion according to Capital FM.
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Although no official price has been released on the cost of tickets across the two major cities, the new SGR is expected to lower the cost of traveling and the times used as well.
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SGR an invaluable learning chance, say local workers
By Vincent Achuka | Updated Sat, May 20th 2017 at 00:00 GMT +3
Transport Principal Secretary Paul Mwangi gets into a SGR locomotive engine at the Port of Mombasa soon after it was off loaded. (Photo: Gideon Maundu/Standard)
Before joining the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) construction three years ago, 46-year-old Robert Karisa was a mason. Last week he was supervising last-minute engineering works for a drainage section at section 9 near Voi ahead of the launch of the project in two weeks.
Hired to lay bricks when the project started in 2013, the mason from Malindi who only had a grade two certificate from a local polytechnic learnt and worked his way up as works progressed. He now issues instructions to the 40 people working under him.
“I trained myself from grade 3 to grade 1 and later through learning while on the project I gained enough knowledge that the company made me an engineer,” he says. He adds, “I may not have a university degree but the knowledge I have gained from working with the best in the world puts me at par with the rest.”
On the day we visited he was supervising renovation of drainages and a fence, a role which at the beginning of the project would have been assigned to a Chinese engineer.
He is not alone. Some 120 years since the British imported 30,000 Indians to build the metre gauge railway because of their experience, the thousands of Kenyans who have been at the centre of Kenya’s most ambitious infrastructure project were forced to learn on the job.
Train first
Through China Road and Bridge Company’s (CRBC) policy of “train first and deploy later,” the railway has been an interface for knowledge transfer between the world’s second largest economy and East Africa’s largest economy. This policy saying “Unskilled worker today, engineer tomorrow” is largely displayed at the entrance of Mtitu Rail Girders and Sleepers factory, which is 253 kilometres from Mombasa on the SGR.
This factory, which was the nerve centre of the whole project produced some 600 bridge sections and 12,000 track sections that went to the railway, which will be launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta on June 1. But most importantly are the skills that the over 25,000 Kenyans employed on the railway learnt. “We have an elaborate training programme after which trainees are awarded a certificate to remain relevant even after the project,” says Julius Li, external resources manager of CRBC.
“This is part of the key objectives of the contract we signed with government,” he says. Jacob Mutua, who has a degree in mining and processing engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) was first taken to Shanghai, China for further training before being hired.
“It is an engineer’s job to ascertain the level at ballast; one of the main components used in rail construction would succumb if subjected to weight or chemicals,” he says.
“Every material that has been used in constructing the railway like sand, water, cement, steel beams or the soil on which the railway has passed has to be tested. This is way beyond what I learnt in school,” he explains from a workshop in Voi.
Some 98 bridges forming 28.2km and 967 culverts stretch on the 428 kilometre line between Mombasa and Nairobi. This includes the 1.6km bridge at Tsavo, which is the longest in Africa.
Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia says the knowledge learnt will enable Kenya run the railway on her own once a 10-year concession given to CRBC ends.
ALSO READ: Kenya Railways receives SGR locomotives
“Sixty students have already been sponsored to study railway engineering at Beijing Baoji University in China and another 40 will leave next month,” he says. Among the 60 are seven women who have trained to be train drivers. Officials at CRBC and the Ministry of Transport say one of the seven women will drive the maiden ride on June 1 from Nairobi to Mombasa.
Some like Caleb Bironga, a senior lab technician now on his third project with Chinese companies, have mastered a bit of the language, something that has come in handy since most of the machines used are made in China. “I can easily work using most machines even without them being calibrated to English,” he says. “If there is one thing I will tell my grandchildren, it is that I was part of history,” he says.
Says Macharia, “Knowledge transfer is critical since it makes sure that the project we are launching is sustainable. The bitter truth is that we do not have the knowledge yet to run this project since the technology is new to us but the Chinese will not run it forever since it is very expensive.”
Already, more than 300 students are undergoing training locally and in the field. It is expected that by the end of this year, a further 500 students will have completed their training.
When the Sunday Standard travelled along the line last week, engineers were testing an automatic signaling system and fine-tuning the train scheduling routine. The signaling system operates on a fibre optic cable that runs parallel to the line supported by an independent electricity supply.
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Benjamin Wu, a Chinese engineer in charge of electric system, terms Kenyan employees as the most motivated in all the countries he has worked in Africa.
ALSO READ: Kenya eyes infrastructure fund from China’s Sh15 trillion Silk Road initiative
On the day Saturday Standard team met him, he was supervising the repair of an electric fence that had been brought down by elephants at the Tsavo National Park.
“The weather, temperature and air quality in Kenya is almost perfect. Kenyans are very smart and very willing to learn from Chinese engineers to gain knowledge. Everyone here wants to make their life better,” he says.
Interestingly, Wu, who was working in Tanzania before coming to Kenya has even mastered the Swahili language, removing the barrier which we noticed during our trip was a huge challenge to the Chinese employees who are working on the railway.
SGR an invaluable learning chance, say local workers :: Kenya - The Standard
By Vincent Achuka | Updated Sat, May 20th 2017 at 00:00 GMT +3
Transport Principal Secretary Paul Mwangi gets into a SGR locomotive engine at the Port of Mombasa soon after it was off loaded. (Photo: Gideon Maundu/Standard)
Hired to lay bricks when the project started in 2013, the mason from Malindi who only had a grade two certificate from a local polytechnic learnt and worked his way up as works progressed. He now issues instructions to the 40 people working under him.
“I trained myself from grade 3 to grade 1 and later through learning while on the project I gained enough knowledge that the company made me an engineer,” he says. He adds, “I may not have a university degree but the knowledge I have gained from working with the best in the world puts me at par with the rest.”
On the day we visited he was supervising renovation of drainages and a fence, a role which at the beginning of the project would have been assigned to a Chinese engineer.
He is not alone. Some 120 years since the British imported 30,000 Indians to build the metre gauge railway because of their experience, the thousands of Kenyans who have been at the centre of Kenya’s most ambitious infrastructure project were forced to learn on the job.
Train first
Through China Road and Bridge Company’s (CRBC) policy of “train first and deploy later,” the railway has been an interface for knowledge transfer between the world’s second largest economy and East Africa’s largest economy. This policy saying “Unskilled worker today, engineer tomorrow” is largely displayed at the entrance of Mtitu Rail Girders and Sleepers factory, which is 253 kilometres from Mombasa on the SGR.
This factory, which was the nerve centre of the whole project produced some 600 bridge sections and 12,000 track sections that went to the railway, which will be launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta on June 1. But most importantly are the skills that the over 25,000 Kenyans employed on the railway learnt. “We have an elaborate training programme after which trainees are awarded a certificate to remain relevant even after the project,” says Julius Li, external resources manager of CRBC.
“This is part of the key objectives of the contract we signed with government,” he says. Jacob Mutua, who has a degree in mining and processing engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) was first taken to Shanghai, China for further training before being hired.
“It is an engineer’s job to ascertain the level at ballast; one of the main components used in rail construction would succumb if subjected to weight or chemicals,” he says.
“Every material that has been used in constructing the railway like sand, water, cement, steel beams or the soil on which the railway has passed has to be tested. This is way beyond what I learnt in school,” he explains from a workshop in Voi.
Some 98 bridges forming 28.2km and 967 culverts stretch on the 428 kilometre line between Mombasa and Nairobi. This includes the 1.6km bridge at Tsavo, which is the longest in Africa.
Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia says the knowledge learnt will enable Kenya run the railway on her own once a 10-year concession given to CRBC ends.
ALSO READ: Kenya Railways receives SGR locomotives
“Sixty students have already been sponsored to study railway engineering at Beijing Baoji University in China and another 40 will leave next month,” he says. Among the 60 are seven women who have trained to be train drivers. Officials at CRBC and the Ministry of Transport say one of the seven women will drive the maiden ride on June 1 from Nairobi to Mombasa.
Some like Caleb Bironga, a senior lab technician now on his third project with Chinese companies, have mastered a bit of the language, something that has come in handy since most of the machines used are made in China. “I can easily work using most machines even without them being calibrated to English,” he says. “If there is one thing I will tell my grandchildren, it is that I was part of history,” he says.
Says Macharia, “Knowledge transfer is critical since it makes sure that the project we are launching is sustainable. The bitter truth is that we do not have the knowledge yet to run this project since the technology is new to us but the Chinese will not run it forever since it is very expensive.”
Already, more than 300 students are undergoing training locally and in the field. It is expected that by the end of this year, a further 500 students will have completed their training.
When the Sunday Standard travelled along the line last week, engineers were testing an automatic signaling system and fine-tuning the train scheduling routine. The signaling system operates on a fibre optic cable that runs parallel to the line supported by an independent electricity supply.
Best of Africa
Benjamin Wu, a Chinese engineer in charge of electric system, terms Kenyan employees as the most motivated in all the countries he has worked in Africa.
ALSO READ: Kenya eyes infrastructure fund from China’s Sh15 trillion Silk Road initiative
On the day Saturday Standard team met him, he was supervising the repair of an electric fence that had been brought down by elephants at the Tsavo National Park.
“The weather, temperature and air quality in Kenya is almost perfect. Kenyans are very smart and very willing to learn from Chinese engineers to gain knowledge. Everyone here wants to make their life better,” he says.
Interestingly, Wu, who was working in Tanzania before coming to Kenya has even mastered the Swahili language, removing the barrier which we noticed during our trip was a huge challenge to the Chinese employees who are working on the railway.
SGR an invaluable learning chance, say local workers :: Kenya - The Standard
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Uganda hails China’s $8 billion loan for East Africa railway
By Brian Ngugi | Business Daily, Kenya May 24, 2017
Uganda has welcomed China’s ‘‘generous’’ Sh860billion loan to three East African countries for the construction of a hi-speed standard gauge railway from Mombasa to Kigali.
Uganda Works and Transport minister Monica Azuba welcomed China’s Sh370 billion loan to Kenya for the Naivasha-Malaba section saying Uganda had also sought Sh236.5 billion for the 273kilometre Malaba-Kampala section.
The comments follow President Uhuru Kenyatta’s disclosure that China’s Exim Bank had agreed to inject Sh370 billion in the Naivasha-Malaba railway which is expected to be constructed at the same time with the Malaba-Kampala line for the next 40 months.
While China Road and Bridge Construction is undertaking Kenya’s second phase from Nairobi to Naivasha, Uganda has contracted China Harbour Engineering Company to build the Malaba-Kampala line.
The disclosures come hardly a week before Kenya commissions the Sh327 billion Mombasa-Nairobi SGR project which will see passenger travel time between the two cities reduce from 10 hours by bus to four and a half by train, while cargo transit time will reduce to eight hours from the traditional four days by truck.
KENYA: The three types of 1435 mm gauge diesel locomotives which CRRC Qishuyan is supplying for the 473 km Mombasa – Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway were unveiled at the factory in China on December 16, 2016.
Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Kenya James Kimonyo haas confirmed that the country is seeking Sh123.5 billion from China’s Exim Bank for construction of their section to Kigali.
Ms Azuba said that they had learnt tough lessons from Kenya’s experience and had embarked on land acquisition in the past one year and had secured 60 per cent of the land and cleared it for construction.
She added that all affected persons had been compensated with structures found on the way demolished, a detailed engineering plan prepared and new roads were now underway to ensure the project runs smoothly.
https://asokoinsight.com/news/uganda-hails-chinas-8-billion-loan-for-east-africa-railway
By Brian Ngugi | Business Daily, Kenya May 24, 2017
Uganda has welcomed China’s ‘‘generous’’ Sh860billion loan to three East African countries for the construction of a hi-speed standard gauge railway from Mombasa to Kigali.
Uganda Works and Transport minister Monica Azuba welcomed China’s Sh370 billion loan to Kenya for the Naivasha-Malaba section saying Uganda had also sought Sh236.5 billion for the 273kilometre Malaba-Kampala section.
“Construction of the 273 kilometre standard gauge railway from Malaba to Kampala is starting this year. Not expected but starting,” she said in a tweet posted on the ministry’s website.
The comments follow President Uhuru Kenyatta’s disclosure that China’s Exim Bank had agreed to inject Sh370 billion in the Naivasha-Malaba railway which is expected to be constructed at the same time with the Malaba-Kampala line for the next 40 months.
While China Road and Bridge Construction is undertaking Kenya’s second phase from Nairobi to Naivasha, Uganda has contracted China Harbour Engineering Company to build the Malaba-Kampala line.
The disclosures come hardly a week before Kenya commissions the Sh327 billion Mombasa-Nairobi SGR project which will see passenger travel time between the two cities reduce from 10 hours by bus to four and a half by train, while cargo transit time will reduce to eight hours from the traditional four days by truck.
Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Kenya James Kimonyo haas confirmed that the country is seeking Sh123.5 billion from China’s Exim Bank for construction of their section to Kigali.
Ms Azuba said that they had learnt tough lessons from Kenya’s experience and had embarked on land acquisition in the past one year and had secured 60 per cent of the land and cleared it for construction.
She added that all affected persons had been compensated with structures found on the way demolished, a detailed engineering plan prepared and new roads were now underway to ensure the project runs smoothly.
“We are working with Kenya to synchronise construction of SGR and we salute our partners for their cooperation. We have also agreed that the Mombasa-Kampala SGR will be run by the same operator upon completion,” she said.
https://asokoinsight.com/news/uganda-hails-chinas-8-billion-loan-for-east-africa-railway
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Thursday, May 25, 2017
Argentina receives more wagons from China
Written by Keith Barrow
ARGENTINA’s minister of transport Mr Guillermo Dietrich visited the port of Buenos Aires on May 24 to witness the delivery of a batch of 156 Chinese-built wagons for Argentinean Trains Cargo.
CRRC is supplying 107 diesel locomotives and 3509 wagons to Argentina under contracts signed in December 2014.
The latest batch comprises 122 wagons for the Belgrano Norte network and 34 vehicles for the San Martín line, and takes the total number of wagons delivered to 2963.
According to the Ministry of Transport, 1600km of track on the Belgrano network will be rehabilitated by 2019 in a project which is being financed through a credit facility with China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC).
During this month’s visit of Argentina’s president Mr Mauricio Macri to Beijing a further agreement was signed which adds a $US 1.6bn credit facility to the $US 2.47bn already allocated.
The delegation signed a $US 2.4bn contract with China Railway Construction Corporation for the renovation of 1600km of track on the San Martín Line. Together with the introduction of new locomotives and rolling stock, the modernisation of infrastructure will increase the capacity of the San Martín Line from 2.3 million tonnes to more than 13 million tonnes by 2024.
http://www.railjournal.com/index.ph...rgentina-receives-more-wagons-from-china.html
Argentina receives more wagons from China
Written by Keith Barrow
ARGENTINA’s minister of transport Mr Guillermo Dietrich visited the port of Buenos Aires on May 24 to witness the delivery of a batch of 156 Chinese-built wagons for Argentinean Trains Cargo.
CRRC is supplying 107 diesel locomotives and 3509 wagons to Argentina under contracts signed in December 2014.
The latest batch comprises 122 wagons for the Belgrano Norte network and 34 vehicles for the San Martín line, and takes the total number of wagons delivered to 2963.
According to the Ministry of Transport, 1600km of track on the Belgrano network will be rehabilitated by 2019 in a project which is being financed through a credit facility with China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC).
During this month’s visit of Argentina’s president Mr Mauricio Macri to Beijing a further agreement was signed which adds a $US 1.6bn credit facility to the $US 2.47bn already allocated.
The delegation signed a $US 2.4bn contract with China Railway Construction Corporation for the renovation of 1600km of track on the San Martín Line. Together with the introduction of new locomotives and rolling stock, the modernisation of infrastructure will increase the capacity of the San Martín Line from 2.3 million tonnes to more than 13 million tonnes by 2024.
http://www.railjournal.com/index.ph...rgentina-receives-more-wagons-from-china.html
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wow, hundreds of Chinese trains are now operating in South America!Thursday, May 25, 2017
Argentina receives more wagons from China
Written by Keith Barrow
ARGENTINA’s minister of transport Mr Guillermo Dietrich visited the port of Buenos Aires on May 24 to witness the delivery of a batch of 156 Chinese-built wagons for Argentinean Trains Cargo.
CRRC is supplying 107 diesel locomotives and 3509 wagons to Argentina under contracts signed in December 2014.
The latest batch comprises 122 wagons for the Belgrano Norte network and 34 vehicles for the San Martín line, and takes the total number of wagons delivered to 2963.
According to the Ministry of Transport, 1600km of track on the Belgrano network will be rehabilitated by 2019 in a project which is being financed through a credit facility with China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC).
During this month’s visit of Argentina’s president Mr Mauricio Macri to Beijing a further agreement was signed which adds a $US 1.6bn credit facility to the $US 2.47bn already allocated.
The delegation signed a $US 2.4bn contract with China Railway Construction Corporation for the renovation of 1600km of track on the San Martín Line. Together with the introduction of new locomotives and rolling stock, the modernisation of infrastructure will increase the capacity of the San Martín Line from 2.3 million tonnes to more than 13 million tonnes by 2024.
http://www.railjournal.com/index.ph...rgentina-receives-more-wagons-from-china.html
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Chinese railway builder secures 1.47 bln USD order from Nigeria
Guo Jing, China Plus Published: 2017-05-26 18:30:55
China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) signed an agreement with the Nigerian government for the second phase of the Abuja mass rail transit construction.
The rail construction linking Abuja and Kaduna by China Railway Construction Corporation was completed in December 2014. [Photo: Xinhua]
The rail is designed to be 32.5 kilometers in length with a maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour, according to an announcement issued by CRCC on Thursday.
The total construction is planned to last 54 months with an investment of 1.47 billion US dollars.
The two sides also inked deals over on motor train unit purchases and the operation management of the phase one project. The CRCC will offer 12 diesel coach sets, car depot appliance and three years of maintenance services.
The latest deals are not the first of their kind for CRCC in Nigeria. In November 2014, the Chinese company signed a contract worth 11.97 billion US dollars with the Nigerian government for a coastal railway line linking Nigeria's economic capital Lagos in the west with Calabar, the capital of the country's Cross River state, in the east.
Guo Jing, China Plus Published: 2017-05-26 18:30:55
China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) signed an agreement with the Nigerian government for the second phase of the Abuja mass rail transit construction.
The rail is designed to be 32.5 kilometers in length with a maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour, according to an announcement issued by CRCC on Thursday.
The total construction is planned to last 54 months with an investment of 1.47 billion US dollars.
The two sides also inked deals over on motor train unit purchases and the operation management of the phase one project. The CRCC will offer 12 diesel coach sets, car depot appliance and three years of maintenance services.
The latest deals are not the first of their kind for CRCC in Nigeria. In November 2014, the Chinese company signed a contract worth 11.97 billion US dollars with the Nigerian government for a coastal railway line linking Nigeria's economic capital Lagos in the west with Calabar, the capital of the country's Cross River state, in the east.
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Thursday, June 08, 2017, 11:04
CRRC on the fast track for global expansion
By Zhong Nan in Beijing, Feng Zhiwei in Changsha and Liu Mingtai in Changchun
A worker guides two bullet trains to connect at a CRRC plant in Qingdao, Shandong province. CRRC hopes to take a 10 to 15 percent global market share by 2020. (Tang Ke / For China Daily)
Editor's note: In the run-up to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China Daily will cover a series of key projects and advanced equipment of national importance, showcasing the country's huge improvements and relentless efforts in manufacturing upgrading and innovation.
China Railway Rolling Stock Corp, the country's railway vehicle manufacturer, plans to establish 11 regional branches throughout the world by 2020 and further target key markets including Europe, North America, Russia and Central Asian countries, said a top executive.
The 11 regional branches will be set up in countries such as Russia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia. The company wants to manufacture trains, purchase parts, and build maintenance and service facilities through a localization strategy and hiring local employees in key markets in 2020.
CRRC set up its first regional branch for North America in Massachusetts last year. The branch is designed to coordinate its businesses and participate in project bidding in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
CRRC President Xi Guohua said the group plans to conclude one or two overseas acquisition deals this year and accelerate exports of both its products and technical standards for 160-kilometer-per-hour electric trains, cargo EMU trains, new energy trains and piggyback wagons.
CRRC is currently in talks with the Czech Republic's Skoda Transportation AS for a 100 percent stake, a move to increase its market share in Europe's railway markets.
The Czech company mainly produces trams, electric locomotives, carriages and electric buses, as well as traction motors and complete drives for traffic systems. If the deal is sealed, this will be the first time the Chinese group has taken over a full-set rail transit equipment manufacturer.
"Our market development strategy has already shifted from only shipping trains to overseas markets to building a global network to compete with established foreign rivals," said Xi.
CRRC hopes to take a 10 to 15 percent global market share and is expecting to raise the total volume of its overseas orders to $15 billion in 2020.
"Even though a lot of money can be made from selling trains, providing maintenance services and selling trains directly in overseas markets can also be profitable and convenient," said Feng Hao, a rail transportation researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission.
The competition is fierce. Foreign rivals such as Siemens AG of Germany, France's Alstom Group and Bombardier Inc of Canada, have all built their global service and sales networks to boost their sales revenue in major overseas markets in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
CRRC has so far pushed a number of products, including high-speed trains that can run at 350 kph, middle-to-low speed magnetically levitated shuttles, high-speed commuter trains running at a maximum speed of 140 kph, piggyback wagons, hydrogen-powered tramcars and oil-electricity hybrid locomotive, into both the global and domestic markets.
In addition to producing trains, CRRC has diversified its product categories to include semiconductors, new energy vehicles, new materials, offshore engineering products and industrial robots.
Hunan-based CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co Ltd, a subsidiary of CRRC, announced last week that it has developed a smart bus to tap lucrative urban transit markets in both the domestic and global markets.
A standard bus is about 30 meters long and equipped with sensors that can read the dimensions of roads and plan its own route, and a standard bus has three carriages with a capacity of 300 people.
It costs around 400 million yuan ($58 million) to 700 million yuan to build a kilometer of metro line. Such a bus costs up to 15 million yuan.
CRRC on the fast track for global expansion
By Zhong Nan in Beijing, Feng Zhiwei in Changsha and Liu Mingtai in Changchun
Editor's note: In the run-up to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China Daily will cover a series of key projects and advanced equipment of national importance, showcasing the country's huge improvements and relentless efforts in manufacturing upgrading and innovation.
China Railway Rolling Stock Corp, the country's railway vehicle manufacturer, plans to establish 11 regional branches throughout the world by 2020 and further target key markets including Europe, North America, Russia and Central Asian countries, said a top executive.
The 11 regional branches will be set up in countries such as Russia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia. The company wants to manufacture trains, purchase parts, and build maintenance and service facilities through a localization strategy and hiring local employees in key markets in 2020.
CRRC set up its first regional branch for North America in Massachusetts last year. The branch is designed to coordinate its businesses and participate in project bidding in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
CRRC President Xi Guohua said the group plans to conclude one or two overseas acquisition deals this year and accelerate exports of both its products and technical standards for 160-kilometer-per-hour electric trains, cargo EMU trains, new energy trains and piggyback wagons.
CRRC is currently in talks with the Czech Republic's Skoda Transportation AS for a 100 percent stake, a move to increase its market share in Europe's railway markets.
The Czech company mainly produces trams, electric locomotives, carriages and electric buses, as well as traction motors and complete drives for traffic systems. If the deal is sealed, this will be the first time the Chinese group has taken over a full-set rail transit equipment manufacturer.
"Our market development strategy has already shifted from only shipping trains to overseas markets to building a global network to compete with established foreign rivals," said Xi.
CRRC hopes to take a 10 to 15 percent global market share and is expecting to raise the total volume of its overseas orders to $15 billion in 2020.
"Even though a lot of money can be made from selling trains, providing maintenance services and selling trains directly in overseas markets can also be profitable and convenient," said Feng Hao, a rail transportation researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission.
The competition is fierce. Foreign rivals such as Siemens AG of Germany, France's Alstom Group and Bombardier Inc of Canada, have all built their global service and sales networks to boost their sales revenue in major overseas markets in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
CRRC has so far pushed a number of products, including high-speed trains that can run at 350 kph, middle-to-low speed magnetically levitated shuttles, high-speed commuter trains running at a maximum speed of 140 kph, piggyback wagons, hydrogen-powered tramcars and oil-electricity hybrid locomotive, into both the global and domestic markets.
In addition to producing trains, CRRC has diversified its product categories to include semiconductors, new energy vehicles, new materials, offshore engineering products and industrial robots.
Hunan-based CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co Ltd, a subsidiary of CRRC, announced last week that it has developed a smart bus to tap lucrative urban transit markets in both the domestic and global markets.
A standard bus is about 30 meters long and equipped with sensors that can read the dimensions of roads and plan its own route, and a standard bus has three carriages with a capacity of 300 people.
It costs around 400 million yuan ($58 million) to 700 million yuan to build a kilometer of metro line. Such a bus costs up to 15 million yuan.
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Thai PM set to speed up Thailand-China railway project
Source: Xinhua| 2017-06-13 19:16:40|Editor: MJ
BANGKOK, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha confirmed on Tuesday he will use Article 44 next week to accelerate the Thailand-China railway project.
Speaking at Government House following a weekly cabinet meeting, Prayut said he will certainly use the Article 44 absolute power to solve legal snags involving the construction of an initial stretch of the 252 km high-speed train project between Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima province.
That is part of the rail project primarily designed to link southwest China's Yunnan province with northeastern Thailand via northern Laos.
He said that the delay in the Thailand-China railway project due to legal difficulties had already been discussed by his cabinet members and that Article 44 will be enforced next week.
He said he had not intended to use his absolute power which, he said, was eventually needed to put forward the railway project.
Source: Xinhua| 2017-06-13 19:16:40|Editor: MJ
BANGKOK, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha confirmed on Tuesday he will use Article 44 next week to accelerate the Thailand-China railway project.
Speaking at Government House following a weekly cabinet meeting, Prayut said he will certainly use the Article 44 absolute power to solve legal snags involving the construction of an initial stretch of the 252 km high-speed train project between Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima province.
That is part of the rail project primarily designed to link southwest China's Yunnan province with northeastern Thailand via northern Laos.
He said that the delay in the Thailand-China railway project due to legal difficulties had already been discussed by his cabinet members and that Article 44 will be enforced next week.
He said he had not intended to use his absolute power which, he said, was eventually needed to put forward the railway project.
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Monday, June 19, 2017, 10:48
Using Belt and Road as track to metro services
By Chai Hua
Shenzhen Metro is exporting urban rail management expertise to world
Qiu An, a trainer at Shenzhen Metro, shares rail vehicle maintenance tips with two local colleagues in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. (Provided To China Daily)
Shenzhen Metro Group Co Ltd, a State-owned urban railway operator in Guangdong province, is exporting its management expertise and its model of urban transportation service to economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Its first project involves two light railway lines totalling 34 kilometers in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
Established in 1998, Shenzhen Metro is the first Chinese metro firm to go global.
China Railway Group Ltd was contracted to undertake the project construction work in 2014.
Shenzhen Metro will be responsible for managing, operating, maintaining and training local staff in the first 41 months.
"The light rail transit will operate 16 hours per day, moving over 100,000 passengers on average," said Yuan Hulin, head of overseas business at Shenzhen Metro. "This will greatly relieve traffic jam on local streets."
On April 25, Shenzhen Metro and China Railway Group teamed up again for an urban railway system in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. For this project, Shenzhen Metro will act as a consultancy service, sharing its expertise in urban rail transportation.
The 13-km line with 12 stations is expected to open in 2018. The contract is worth about 89 million yuan (US$13 million) with a service period of 16 months.
Shenzhen Metro will be responsible for compiling an operating system guide, preparatory consulting as well as comprehensive testing and adjusting of signals, drainage, communication and other facilities.
The project will help the company to gather experience in international consulting and form a professional integrated service system, said Lin Maode, president of Shenzhen Metro.
The company recently became one of the largest shareholders of China Vanke Co, one of China's largest property developers.
It is trying to deploy its expertise in realty-related operations in overseas projects, for the development and management of commercial properties on railway assets like station premises and track-side vacant plots.
According to its annual report, the firm's four real estate projects in China opened to the market in 2015 and realized sales revenue of 11.9 billion yuan.
Shenzhen Metro signed an agreement in November 2016 to build a suburban railway system in Ramadan, a satellite city near Egypt's capital Cairo.
The company will operate the railway and train staff for two years. It will undertake maintenance for 10 years and oversee integrated development of commercial land along the line.
"There are many land resources to develop along the railway lines and an increasing demand to establish more commercial facilities in such areas," Yuan said. "Our business model offers comprehensive utilization of land resources."
Shenzhen Metro is also exploring more overseas projects in Nigeria, Israel and other economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.
"Our strategy is to establish market-oriented mechanisms that entail minimum investment on overseas projects and pre-empt losses," said Yuan.
To deliver guaranteed quality on overseas projects, the company limits costs to contracted prices, he said.
"Currently, infrastructure construction has a dominant role, but the demand for related services will be tremendous in future," said Zhao Guangbin, senior economist of Shenzhen Qianhai PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Consulting Services Co Ltd.
Infrastructure projects such as airports, railways and nuclear power stations need people to operate and manage them after construction. So Shenzhen Metro's focus on services makes eminent sense, he said.
But challenges will ensue, he said. "Ninety percent of employers would be local residents. So culture, language, customs - they would need attention. So would key aspects like security."
Using Belt and Road as track to metro services
By Chai Hua
Shenzhen Metro is exporting urban rail management expertise to world
Shenzhen Metro Group Co Ltd, a State-owned urban railway operator in Guangdong province, is exporting its management expertise and its model of urban transportation service to economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Its first project involves two light railway lines totalling 34 kilometers in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
Established in 1998, Shenzhen Metro is the first Chinese metro firm to go global.
China Railway Group Ltd was contracted to undertake the project construction work in 2014.
Shenzhen Metro will be responsible for managing, operating, maintaining and training local staff in the first 41 months.
"The light rail transit will operate 16 hours per day, moving over 100,000 passengers on average," said Yuan Hulin, head of overseas business at Shenzhen Metro. "This will greatly relieve traffic jam on local streets."
On April 25, Shenzhen Metro and China Railway Group teamed up again for an urban railway system in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. For this project, Shenzhen Metro will act as a consultancy service, sharing its expertise in urban rail transportation.
The 13-km line with 12 stations is expected to open in 2018. The contract is worth about 89 million yuan (US$13 million) with a service period of 16 months.
Shenzhen Metro will be responsible for compiling an operating system guide, preparatory consulting as well as comprehensive testing and adjusting of signals, drainage, communication and other facilities.
The project will help the company to gather experience in international consulting and form a professional integrated service system, said Lin Maode, president of Shenzhen Metro.
The company recently became one of the largest shareholders of China Vanke Co, one of China's largest property developers.
It is trying to deploy its expertise in realty-related operations in overseas projects, for the development and management of commercial properties on railway assets like station premises and track-side vacant plots.
According to its annual report, the firm's four real estate projects in China opened to the market in 2015 and realized sales revenue of 11.9 billion yuan.
Shenzhen Metro signed an agreement in November 2016 to build a suburban railway system in Ramadan, a satellite city near Egypt's capital Cairo.
The company will operate the railway and train staff for two years. It will undertake maintenance for 10 years and oversee integrated development of commercial land along the line.
"There are many land resources to develop along the railway lines and an increasing demand to establish more commercial facilities in such areas," Yuan said. "Our business model offers comprehensive utilization of land resources."
Shenzhen Metro is also exploring more overseas projects in Nigeria, Israel and other economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.
"Our strategy is to establish market-oriented mechanisms that entail minimum investment on overseas projects and pre-empt losses," said Yuan.
To deliver guaranteed quality on overseas projects, the company limits costs to contracted prices, he said.
"Currently, infrastructure construction has a dominant role, but the demand for related services will be tremendous in future," said Zhao Guangbin, senior economist of Shenzhen Qianhai PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Consulting Services Co Ltd.
Infrastructure projects such as airports, railways and nuclear power stations need people to operate and manage them after construction. So Shenzhen Metro's focus on services makes eminent sense, he said.
But challenges will ensue, he said. "Ninety percent of employers would be local residents. So culture, language, customs - they would need attention. So would key aspects like security."
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China-Moscow high-speed rail takes the first step
Source:Global Times Published: 2017/6/19 15:28:39
China's State-owned construction enterprise China Railway Group Ltd (CRG) has signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its Russian counterpart, but the deal has not entered concrete construction process, the company told the Global Times on Monday.
The deal aims to build a high-speed railway linking Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, two Russian cities, according to local news site sputniknews.com.
The deal is part of an ambitious high-speed rail link from Moscow to Beijing, running over 7,000 kilometers, with a total cost of more than $230 billion, the media report noted.
CRG signed an MoU with local high-speed railway operator Ural High-Speed Co on Thursday, but no concrete progress has been made so far.
It was not the first time the Chinese rail constructor won the bid for building railways in Russia. CRG won a $390 million contract in May 2015 in order to build the Moscow-Kazan high speed railway, which is also expected to be extended to China, according to local news outlet Russia Today.
The deal was signed during the 4th China-Russia Expo, which ran from Thursday to Monday in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. In total, 74 countries and regions participated in the exposition, within which 23 are along the route of "One Belt, One Road", State-owned China Central Television reported on Thursday.
Source:Global Times Published: 2017/6/19 15:28:39
China's State-owned construction enterprise China Railway Group Ltd (CRG) has signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its Russian counterpart, but the deal has not entered concrete construction process, the company told the Global Times on Monday.
The deal aims to build a high-speed railway linking Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, two Russian cities, according to local news site sputniknews.com.
The deal is part of an ambitious high-speed rail link from Moscow to Beijing, running over 7,000 kilometers, with a total cost of more than $230 billion, the media report noted.
CRG signed an MoU with local high-speed railway operator Ural High-Speed Co on Thursday, but no concrete progress has been made so far.
It was not the first time the Chinese rail constructor won the bid for building railways in Russia. CRG won a $390 million contract in May 2015 in order to build the Moscow-Kazan high speed railway, which is also expected to be extended to China, according to local news outlet Russia Today.
The deal was signed during the 4th China-Russia Expo, which ran from Thursday to Monday in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. In total, 74 countries and regions participated in the exposition, within which 23 are along the route of "One Belt, One Road", State-owned China Central Television reported on Thursday.
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China Railway to build Russia link
2017-06-20 08:45
China Daily Editor: Feng Shuang
Technicians work at the Liaoning section of a high-speed railway in Northeast China's Liaoning province, June 17, 2017. (Photo/Xinhua)
New high-speed line to connect Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk
China Railway Group Ltd, an infrastructure construction company, will build a high-speed railway in Russia connecting the country's third-largest city Yekaterinburg with Chelyabinsk, as the Chinese company's overseas business keeps expanding.
The project will involve a total investment of $2.5 billion, according to a memorandum of understanding signed between the Chinese company and Ural Highway during the Fourth China-Russia Exposition held recently in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin.
The train is expected to run at a speed of up to 250 kilometers per hour, according to Russian media outlet Sputnik.
The high-speed rail link is expected to cut the current journey time between two cities to approximately one hour and 10 minutes from five hours, according to China Railway Group Ltd.
"It is a promising project with huge potential. We believe it will boost the region's economic development, and benefit local people after its completion," said Zhang Xian, vice-president of the company.
"The experience of the Moscow-Kazan railway positions us well in the industry. We are ready to make full use of our cutting-edge technology in this project."
The high-speed rail link has great potential, as it will be part of the high-speed transit corridor passing through Berlin, Moscow, Astana and Beijing, Boris Dubrovskiy, governor of Russia's Chelyabinsk region, was quoted as saying by Sputnik.
In April, China's first overseas high-speed rail project was launched in Indonesia. It was the first time China allowed a State-owned company to get fully involved in an overseas project in terms of design and construction, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic regulator.
Bao Rongfu, a transportation analyst with Nanjing-based Huatai Securities Co Ltd, said China Railway Group's overseas orders are expected to "sustain rapid growth", as the Belt and Road Initiative advances.
In 2016, the company signed overseas contracts worth a record 102.5 billion yuan ($15.04 billion), up 49.6 percent year-on-year, according to its annual report.
In the first quarter this year, it reported that newly signed overseas contracts reached 15.58 billion yuan, up 131.8 percent from the same period last year. During the same period, its net profits increased 15.32 percent year-on-year to 2.62 billion yuan.
http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/06-20/262070.shtml
2017-06-20 08:45
China Daily Editor: Feng Shuang
Technicians work at the Liaoning section of a high-speed railway in Northeast China's Liaoning province, June 17, 2017. (Photo/Xinhua)
New high-speed line to connect Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk
China Railway Group Ltd, an infrastructure construction company, will build a high-speed railway in Russia connecting the country's third-largest city Yekaterinburg with Chelyabinsk, as the Chinese company's overseas business keeps expanding.
The project will involve a total investment of $2.5 billion, according to a memorandum of understanding signed between the Chinese company and Ural Highway during the Fourth China-Russia Exposition held recently in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin.
The train is expected to run at a speed of up to 250 kilometers per hour, according to Russian media outlet Sputnik.
The high-speed rail link is expected to cut the current journey time between two cities to approximately one hour and 10 minutes from five hours, according to China Railway Group Ltd.
"It is a promising project with huge potential. We believe it will boost the region's economic development, and benefit local people after its completion," said Zhang Xian, vice-president of the company.
"The experience of the Moscow-Kazan railway positions us well in the industry. We are ready to make full use of our cutting-edge technology in this project."
The high-speed rail link has great potential, as it will be part of the high-speed transit corridor passing through Berlin, Moscow, Astana and Beijing, Boris Dubrovskiy, governor of Russia's Chelyabinsk region, was quoted as saying by Sputnik.
In April, China's first overseas high-speed rail project was launched in Indonesia. It was the first time China allowed a State-owned company to get fully involved in an overseas project in terms of design and construction, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic regulator.
Bao Rongfu, a transportation analyst with Nanjing-based Huatai Securities Co Ltd, said China Railway Group's overseas orders are expected to "sustain rapid growth", as the Belt and Road Initiative advances.
In 2016, the company signed overseas contracts worth a record 102.5 billion yuan ($15.04 billion), up 49.6 percent year-on-year, according to its annual report.
In the first quarter this year, it reported that newly signed overseas contracts reached 15.58 billion yuan, up 131.8 percent from the same period last year. During the same period, its net profits increased 15.32 percent year-on-year to 2.62 billion yuan.
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Chinese company signs deal to build Bangladesh's dual-gauge railway line
Xinhua | Updated: 2017-06-20
DHAKA - A leading Chinese company has signed an agreement to lay a dual-gauge track on the capital Dhaka-adjacent Narayanganj district route to increase Bangladesh Railway's capacity nearly fourfold.
Power Construction Corporation of China Limited signed the construction contract with the Bangladeshi government on Monday in the capital Dhaka.
Commercial Manager of Power Construction Corporation of China Limited Zhang Peiliang and Additional Director General (infrastructure) of Bangladesh Railway Kazi Mohammad Rafiqul Alam signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides.
The Bangladeshi government in January 2015 gave the final go-ahead to the project of about a rail link from Dhaka to Narayanganj district, about 20 km away from the capital.
Construction is scheduled to be completed by June 2019.
The total project cost would be met through the Bangladeshi government's own funds.
Chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council in January 2015 approved the 3.79 billion taka ($470 million) project.
Once the track is laid, Bangladesh Railway will be able to transport nearly 100,000 passengers on the route every day against its current capacity of 23,000 commuters.
Under the project, a dual-gauge track will be laid parallel to the existing meter-gauge track.
Seventy-six trains would run on the route every day after completion of the project. At present, 32 trains ply the route.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2017-06/20/content_29812812.htm
Xinhua | Updated: 2017-06-20
DHAKA - A leading Chinese company has signed an agreement to lay a dual-gauge track on the capital Dhaka-adjacent Narayanganj district route to increase Bangladesh Railway's capacity nearly fourfold.
Power Construction Corporation of China Limited signed the construction contract with the Bangladeshi government on Monday in the capital Dhaka.
Commercial Manager of Power Construction Corporation of China Limited Zhang Peiliang and Additional Director General (infrastructure) of Bangladesh Railway Kazi Mohammad Rafiqul Alam signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides.
The Bangladeshi government in January 2015 gave the final go-ahead to the project of about a rail link from Dhaka to Narayanganj district, about 20 km away from the capital.
Construction is scheduled to be completed by June 2019.
The total project cost would be met through the Bangladeshi government's own funds.
Chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council in January 2015 approved the 3.79 billion taka ($470 million) project.
Once the track is laid, Bangladesh Railway will be able to transport nearly 100,000 passengers on the route every day against its current capacity of 23,000 commuters.
Under the project, a dual-gauge track will be laid parallel to the existing meter-gauge track.
Seventy-six trains would run on the route every day after completion of the project. At present, 32 trains ply the route.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2017-06/20/content_29812812.htm
