China eyes KL-Singapore HSR project

High-speed rail coaches being assembled at CSR Qingdao Sifang Co Ltd plant in Qingdao.

A CONSORTIUM of China’s high-speed rail design, development and construction companies comprising China Railway Construction Corp Ltd (CRCC), The Third Railway Survey And Design Institute Group Corp (TSDI) and CSR Qingdao Sifang Co Ltd is hopeful of clinching the multi-billion ringgit Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail link (HSR) project.

Dubbed South-East Asia’s most ambitious infrastructure project and the region’s first HSR, the 340 km link will reduce the journey over land between the two neighbours to 90 minutes from about six hours.