Five companies are still competing for a contract to build a major railway in the Baltic region / article

RB Rail, the Baltic joint venture and head of the € 5.8 billion Baltic Railways project, said the five potential mainline builders are: Webuild LIKE-THE JV, a group of Italian and French companies. Joint Venture OHLA – GULERMAK Rail Balticaformed by Huarty Lane WorksSA, Gülermak Heavy Industry Construction and Contracting as such. And the Gullermac sp. z oo (Spain, Turkey, Poland); ERB Rail Baltica JV, format da Evadi Jenny Civil SAS, Body blend S.A Rizani de Escher SpA (France, Poland, Italy); Aldesa Construction SA, China Civil Engineering Construction CorporationA limited liability company Baltic technology (Spain, China and Latvia); And finally, the Turkish companies IC İÇTAŞ CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND TRADE as such. And the DOGUS CONSTRUCTION AND TRADE A.S.

“This result confirms the positive experience we have had so far with the competition as attracting builders with experience and good maturity is an important factor in the further implementation of the Rail Baltica project. In this case, we aim to attract a partner already in the initial phase to ensure the construction potential and cost optimization and experience of the selected partner at the end of the main line design phase ”, the Latvian part of RB Rail.

RB Real said work is underway to prepare documents for the second round of tenders, in which applicants will submit financial and technical bids. After completion of the tender on an unspecified future date, “construction work outside Riga is expected to start in 2023. Priority construction work will be carried out in the direction of Riga airport to At the Latvian / Lithuanian border and at the Salaspils multimodal freight station ”.

The first construction works are planned in the municipality of Bauska near Iecava, where the Baltic Railway Infrastructure Maintenance Facility will be established in the future. During the construction of Rail Baltica, this maintenance facility will be used as the logistical base for the construction. The following works are likely to begin with objects of the highest level of engineering and technical complexity: new railway bridges over the Ekava and Memili rivers.

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