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RZD issues Moscow-Kazan HSR tender

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Russian Railways (RZD) has announced the launch of a tender to design and plan the proposed 770-kilometre high-speed railway between Moscow and Kazan.

The contract, which has a value of 20.79 billion roubles (€320 million), will include surveying works and route planning for the new Russian-gauge railway.

The route, which is expected to have a line speed of up to 400 km/h, will link Moscow, Nizhny, Novgorod, Cheboksary and Kazan. In the future, the Russian government hopes the line will form part of a new high-speed rail corridor between Moscow, Astana, Kazakhstan, and Beijing, China.

Journey times between Moscow and Kazan will be reduced to three-and-a-half hours, with around 10.5 million passengers predicted to use the corridor within its first year.

RZD has said the line will be the largest infrastructure project under construction in Russia, creating around 370,000 jobs.

The project will be financed as a public-private partnership (PPP).

Vladimir Yakunin, president of RZD, said: “The development of high-speed rail is a fundamentally new step in the modernisation of the Russian transport system, one which countries such as Japan, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, China and many others have already taken.”

He added: “In announcing this tender, we are confident that both Russian and foreign companies with experience in designing and constructing high-speed railway lines will take part. I am convinced that localising in Russia advanced technologies in the field of railway transport will have a positive impact on the development of the entire economy of the Russian Federation.”

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