Bahrain's Tender Board has announced that a total of 11 leading global infrastructure majors have been prequalified for the first phase of 109-km-long Bahrain Metro system. Being implemented in four phases, Bahrain Metro's Phase One comprises two lines running 29 km long covering 20 stations. The selected private partner will implement the project on Design, Build, Finance, Operate, Maintain, Transfer basis with a contract period of 35 years. The list of the pre-qualified bidders for the project includeAlstom Transport (France)Hyundai Engineering & Construction (South Korea)L&T (India)Plenary Asia (Singapore)Harbour Engineering and China Railway Group (China)Virtue Global Holding (UK)CRRC (Hong Kong)Orascom Construction (Egypt) Estimated to cost around USD 2 billion, the Bahrain Metro project marks an important milestone as it will provide a fast, comfortable, reliable, sustainable and modern transportation system in the kingdom, thereby improving the standards of living. With this state-of the art, fully automated, driverless metro system, MTT plans to develop an efficient public transport service in the kingdom
Bahrain's Tender Board has announced that a total of 11 leading global infrastructure majors have been prequalified for the first phase of 109-km-long Bahrain Metro system. Being implemented in four phases, Bahrain Metro's Phase One comprises two lines running 29 km long covering 20 stations. The selected private partner will implement the project on Design, Build, Finance, Operate, Maintain, Transfer basis with a contract period of 35 years. The list of the pre-qualified bidders for the project includeAlstom Transport (France)Hyundai Engineering & Construction (South Korea)L&T (India)Plenary Asia (Singapore)Harbour Engineering and China Railway Group (China)Virtue Global Holding (UK)CRRC (Hong Kong)Orascom Construction (Egypt) Estimated to cost around USD 2 billion, the Bahrain Metro project marks an important milestone as it will provide a fast, comfortable, reliable, sustainable and modern transportation system in the kingdom, thereby improving the standards of living. With this state-of the art, fully automated, driverless metro system, MTT plans to develop an efficient public transport service in the kingdom
