Mexico Calls for International Help to Build $3.3B High-Speed Rail Line David Rogers - COIB
go to original August 1, 2014

Mexico’s Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) has invited contractors and consultants around the world to tender for work on a high-speed rail line linking Mexico City with Querétaro to its north-west.

The project is expected to cost $3.3bn and is part of a $9.4bn programme of freight and passenger rail projects announced by SCT in February.

A statement by the ministry said the line would be designed for operation at up to 300km/h. This would allow it to carry 23,000 passengers a day over the 210km between Buenavista station in Mexico City and Querétaro in 59 minutes.

The ministry added that the project would create 20,000 direct jobs and take 18,000 passenger cars off the road.

The central Mexican city of Querétaro is at the centre of one of the most economically dynamic regions in the country, and is the Mexican base of a number of international construction and engineering firms, including Bombardier, Siemens, Hitachi, Saint-Gobain and ThyssenKrupp.

Canada’s Bombardier, which is the world’s biggest train maker, and Germany’s Siemens have both said they are planning to put in a tender for the line.

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