Chinese firm wins tender for monorail trains - The Jakarta Post | Sector data
(The Insider Stories) – The Jakarta Monorail (JM) consortium developing one of two new rail-based transport systems in Jakarta has tapped a Chinese firm to supply trains to the project, which it plans to resume this year after work was halted several years ago due to a lack of financing, The Jakarta Post reports.
The text of the report is below:
Consortium PT Jakarta Monorail (JM) has appointed China-based rolling stock manufacturer Changchun Railway Vehicle Co., Ltd. (CNR) to supply trains for the capital’s monorail project, which is planned to resume this year.
JM technical director Bovanantoo declined to elaborate on the details of the cooperation agreement between the two firms, or on the price of the trains. PT JM planned to operate 10 trains comprising nearly 200 carriages on two monorail lines by 2016.
JM had previously said it aimed to restart work on the construction in April. The Monorail Project is now 10 percent controlled by ITC and 90 percent controlled by the Singapore-based Ortus Group, which JM decided to engage earlier this year in exchange for $300 million in capital from Ortus.
The consortium is proposing to build two lines: the green line, with 16 stations, will extend 14.27 kilometers from Komdak (the city police headquarters) to Satria Mandala Museum, both in South Jakarta; and the blue line will stretch 9.72 km from Kampung Melayu in East Jakarta to Roxy in West Jakarta, with 11 stations.
According to its website, CNR designs and develops more than 30 types of railway vehicles and urban mass transit vehicles every year, has more than 10,000 employees and has a factory area of 3.10 million square meters.
