Tender for Budapest-Belgrade rail line upgrade published

The deadline for requesting to participate in the two-phase tender to upgrade the Hungarian stretch of the Budapest-Belgrade rail line is January 19, 2018. The contracting entity is Chinese-Hungarian Railway Nonprofit Ltd, the tender invitation published on the website of Hungarian state railways MAV on Monday shows. State-owned China Railway International Corporation and China Railway International Group hold a combined 85 percent of Chinese-Hungarian Railway Nonprofit and MAV holds 15 percent. The contract concerns activities from design, procurement, construction, to commissioning and handover of the project to the end-user or the owner. The upgrade is for a 152km railway line stretching between Soroksar, on the outskirts of Budapest, and Kelebia, on the Serbian border, with mixed traffic.