MALAYSIA: National operator KTMB has awarded a consortium of Ansaldo STS Malaysia and Pestech Technology a 264m ringgit contract for the resignalling of the Gemas – Johor Bahru main line in the south of the country.
The 198 km metre-gauge route has 11 stations and a depot at Kempas Baru. Ansaldo STS will supply its MicroLok II interlocking, wayside automatic train protection, and train control systems for the operations centre at KL Sentral in Kuala Lumpur and a control centre at Gemas.
ASIA: An agreement to delay construction of the planned 350 km Kuala Lumpur – Singapore high speed rail line by up to five years was signed by representatives of the governments of Malaysia and Singapore on September 5.
MALAYSIA: Main contractor China Communications Construction Co has appointed AECOM to provide site supervision services for the construction of stations, viaducts, tunnels and depots for the East Coast Rail Link project, and has awarded HSS Integrated a 83m ringgit contract to provide supervising consultancy services for Package 1 which covers ...
