The Bangladeshi government has signed three deals with Chinese and Thai companies for the country’s first-ever metro rail project. Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), a Bangladeshi state-owned enterprise founded to implement the metro rail lines across the Dhaka city, signed the separate contract packages (CPs) including CP-2, CP-3 and CP-4, worth over 58.26 billion taka ($719 million) with the firms Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited, a Thailand-based construction firm, and Chinese state-owned Sinohydro Corporation Limited. Sinohydro signed a deal worth 15.96 billion taka ($196 million) for CP-2, while Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited signed a deal for all the three packages.
Under the deals, the companies will build metro rail tracks, stations and a depot for the 20.1-km Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 that will link north Dhaka with the south through 16 stations. According to the project, the package CP-2 is for the civil and building works of the depot, while CP-3 and CP-4 are for the construction of metro rail tracks and elevated stations.
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