NEARLY 400 people representing 165 companies from around the world attended a briefing on July 5 on the planned Kuala Lumpur – Singapore high-speed rail project covering tender parameters, procurement processes and harmonisation of regulatory requirements for the upcoming Assets Company (AssetsCo) tender.
MALAYSIA’s MyHSR Corporation and Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) will jointly hold an industry briefing in Singapore on July 5 for the Assets Company (AssetsCo) tender for the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore high-speed rail project.
SPAIN’s Exni Railway officially opened a factory in Selangor, Malaysia, on May 26 to manufacture rolling stock maintenance equipment, track construction machinery spare parts, and freight wagons.
TRIAL operation began on May 1 on the eastern section of the 51km Klang Valley MRT Sungai Buloh - Kajang Line (Line MRT1) in Kuala Lumpur.
MALAYSIA’s Ministry of Communications signed two contracts with CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive for 22 metre-gauge multiple units at a ceremony in Changsha, China, on April 11.
THE preferred route alignment for Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link was revealed on March 8, when prime minister Mr Najib Razak visited the offices of the Land Public Transport Commission (Spad) in Kuala Lumpur to officially launch a three month public consultation on the project.
BOMBARDIER announced on December 29 that the first of 14 driverless Innovia Metro 300 trains ordered by Prasarana to expand the fleets on the Kelana Jaya Line on the Kuala Lumpur light metro network had entered service.
MALAYSIA’s first heavy metro line was inaugurated on December 15, when prime minister Mr Najib Razak officially opened the first Phase 1 of the Klang Valley MRT Sungai Buloh – Kajang Line (Line MRT1) in a ceremony at Kwasa Damansara station.
MALAYSIAN prime minister Mr Najib Razak and his Singaporean counterpart Mr Lee Hsien Loong witnessed the signing of a bilateral agreement at the Malayisan prime minister’s retreat in Putrajaya on December 13, which commits the two countries to complete the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore high-speed line within a decade.
MALAYSIA’s transport minister Mr Liow Tiong Lai announced on November 23 that the government is looking to adopt a public-private partnership structure to reopen the 39km branch from Seremban south of Kuala Lumpur to coastal town Port Dickson.