중국철도건설(CRCC), 37억불 규모 멕시코 고속철도 프로젝트 수주 Chinese-led consortium wins Mexico high-speed rail project
Routes discussed in this article. Black = done deals, blue = future, dashed blue = distant future
멕시코시티~퀘레타로시 노선도
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중국철도건설그룹(CRCC)이 멕시코 중부 고속철도 건설 프로젝트를 수주했다.
멕시코 시티와 퀘레타로시를 연결하는 이 철도 사업은 독일의 지멘스와 캐나다의 봄바르디아 등의 쟁쟁한 경쟁 상대가 초기에 참여했으나 210km/h의 최종 고속철 입찰에 CRCC만이 참여해 수주했다.
멕시코 정부는 이 사업의 건설비 및 5년간의 운영에 37.4억불이 소요될 것으로 보고 있으나 CRCC는 이 중 2/3 수준인 28.6억불로 사업을 완료할 예정이다.
이 사업의 재원은 중국의 수출입은행이 공사비의 85%를 조달하게 된다. <에디터 황기철>
Chinese-led consortium wins Mexico high-speed rail project
Christine Murray MEXICO CITY — Reuters
A Chinese-led consortium has won an uncontested contract for a multi-billion dollar high-speed passenger rail link between Mexico City and the central city of Queretaro, the Mexican Transport and Communications Ministry said on Monday.
The group led by China Railway Construction Corp. Ltd. was the only bidder for the 210-km line, despite earlier interest from rivals such as German conglomerate Siemens and Canada’s Bombardier.
Under President Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico has sought to forge closer business ties with China, while the world’s No. 2 economy has been looking to export more of its high-speed rail technology. The Export-Import Bank of China (EximBank) will finance 85 per cent of the project’s costs, the ministry said.
Mexico’s government said on Monday the project would cost 50.82 billion pesos ($3.74-billion), including the build cost and five years of operation. The figure will be updated later to reflect inflation, exchange rates and other variables when the contract is signed, the government said.
That is less than the 58.95 billion pesos the consortium quoted for the deal, according to a China Railway Construction Corp statement earlier on Monday. The company said it will undertake work worth 38.96 billion pesos, around two-thirds of the total.
A Mexican transport ministry spokesman said that the government figure excludes value-added tax, which eventually is returned to the government anyway.
Mexico wants the project to allow 27,000 passengers to move daily from Queretaro at speeds of as fast as 300 km/h. Siemens’ Mexico rail chief told Reuters last month that the company, along with Bombardier and France’s Alstom PA, had asked for more time to prepare a bid, a request denied by the transport ministry |
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