Esfahan invites bids for rail tracks

30 January 2012

Tender is for the $1.9bn Esfahan light-rail transit project

The Esfahan Urban Railway Organisation (Euro) is inviting companies to submit bids for a contract to supply railway track for the $1.9bn Esfahan light-rail transit (LRT) project.

The deal involves supplying 2,000 tonnes of rail bars to be used in the construction of the LRT project. The consultant for the LRT project is local Hexa Consulting Engineers. The project is being financed through the government’s civil projects division.

The LRT project will comprise five lines. The first is the main line, which runs 12.5 kilometres north-south and has 15 stations. Lines two and three also run north-south and are 21.9km and 16km respectively. A group comprising local Metra Consulting and France’s Systra is carrying out the civil works for line two. Line four runs south-west and will be 43km and the fifth line will run 20km east-west across the city.

Esfahan is in central Iran, about 400 kilometres south of Tehran.

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