Laos rail project brings Singapore link closer

China’s planned rail link stretching all the way south to Singapore took a step closer in September when China Railway Group (CRG) won a USD1.2 billion contract to build a large section of railway through neighbouring Laos.

The contract, with subsidiaries of CRG, covers the first three sections of the 414km Boten-Vientiane Railway Project which will eventually run north from Boten in China to Vientiane south on the Thai border. Construction of sections I, II and III is expected to take 60 months.

In December last year, another CRG subsidiary secured a USD344 million contract for section VI of the same line.

China Railway Group said the whole railway would cost approximately USD5.6 billion.

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