1st batch of rails for Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway arrives in Indonesia


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  • Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020

JAKARTA, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The first batch of 50-meter-long rails from China for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway (HSR) arrived at Indonesian Central Java province's port city Cilacap on Wednesday, the railway operator said here.

KCIC, a joint venture consortium by Chinese and Indonesian state-owned firms that will build and run the 142.3-km railway linking Jakarta and West Java's capital of Bandung, said the arrival of the first batch of rails marked significant progress of the track laying for the mega project.

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