The government has hired a consortium consisting of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and two local construction companies for the rolling stock and the setting-up of the rail operating system of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) East Line, the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) announced on its website yesterday.
According to the website, the contract has a price tag of 3.657 billion patacas.
The ongoing construction of the LRT East Line got off the ground in October last year.
The current LRT East Line construction project, which has a price tag of 9.28 billion patacas, is a 7.7-kilometre-long section connecting the Barrier Gate checkpoint at the peninsula’s northern tip and the Taipa Ferry Terminal via the Zone A and Zone E1 land reclamation areas. The East Line will cross the sea between Zone A and Zone E1 through an undersea tunnel.
The government said in January that it expected the LRT East Line to open in 2029 after the scheduled completion of its construction in 2028.
According to yesterday’s announcement on the DSOP website, the consortium consisting of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Top Builders, and Hou Chon will be required to complete the setting-up of the LRT East Line’s rail operating system by May 31, 2029.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is the supplier of the LRT system and trains used in the current Taipa/Cotai section, which opened in December 2019. Its Barra extension opened last December.
This handout photo downloaded from the Public Works Bureau’s (DSOP) website yesterday shows the construction of one of the LRT East Line’s stations in Zone A, where numerous public housing projects are being carried out, in December last year.
