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| Koreans to design a 70km-long section of high-speed railway in Poland A South Korean consortium has won the Centralny Port Komunikacyjny tender for the design of the High Speed Railway line between Katowice and the Polish-Czech border. This 70-kilometre section is part of the railway route between Katowice and Ostrava. More than 400 km of the CPK railway "spokes" are already at the design stage. Katowice – Ostrava is one of the key sections of the railway lines built in Poland by CPK. It is an important part of the EU's Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) connecting Katowice, Warsaw and Krakow with Brno, Prague, Bratislava, Vienna and Budapest. The tender for the design of the railway line was won by a consortium of two companies. The first is Korea National Railway (KNR), a state-owned company that has carried out railway construction projects, technical consultancy services and feasibility studies, including high speed rail. The second entity in the consortium is Dohwa Engineering, a South Korean engineering and construction company that has completed more than 7,000 projects at national and global level. The value of the contract amounts to PLN 134 million. The project falls under Poland’s “Centralny Port Komunikacyjny” (Central Communication Port) scheme, or CPK, which aims to integrate air, road, and rail transport. One of the biggest ongoing infrastructure projects in Central Europe, CPK will see a new international airport built near Warsaw, plus 2,000km of new high-speed rail. The goal is to put Warsaw within 2.5 hours of all major Polish cities. write your comments about the article :: © 2023 Construction News :: home page |