Eleven firms for the USD1.75 billion metro PPP project in Bahrain
The Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications (MTT) of Bahrain has received applications from eleven firms in response to the prequalification notice for the Bahrain metro concession.
The interested firms are:
- China Harbour Engineering - Foreign Branch
- China Railway Group
- Orascom Construction
- Alstom Transport
- Taqi Mohammed Albahrana Trading
- Hyundai Engineering & Construction
- Aradous Energy Generations
- Larsen & Toubro
- Virtue Global Holding
- Plenary Asia
- CRRC (Hong Kong)
The successful bidder will be responsible for the design, build, finance, operation, maintenance and transfer of the 109 km long metro line network. The project will be implemented in four phases. First Phase involves the development of two metro lines with a length of around 28.6 km and 20 stations. The concession period will be 35 years.
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