Contracts Awarded on US$2.4bn Singapore-Malaysia Shuttle

• Me Wathana
• 31 December 2020
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Japanese contractor Penta-Ocean Construction has been awarded a US$676m civil engineering package for the 4km Johor Bahru–Singapore Rapid Transit System being built to connect Singapore and Malaysia by the Singapore Land Transit Authority (LTA)

Penta-Ocean will handle tunneling work, and will build the Singapore terminus of Woodlands North station and the Malaysia terminus at Bukit Chaga as well as a Customs, Immigration & Quarantine (CIQ) building in Singapore. There will be a similar building on the Malaysian side.

Work on the link will begin early next year, and when complete at the end of 2026 it will carry 41,400 people a day over the straight, easing congestion on the causeway that currently carries road traffic.

First suggested in 1991 as a traffic solution, it has taken almost 30 years to get the project off the ground.

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