Lithuanian infrastructure company Kauno Tiltai AB and construction company Mitnija UAB have finished laying, remodelling and upgrading the first European gauge railway from Sestokai town to Marijampole town.
The consortium of Kauno Tiltai and Mitnija thus completed one third of all the work planned for the Rail Baltica project: a new 34.5 km-long and 1,435 mm-broad European standard gauge section and a remodelled 36 km-long and 1,520 mm-broad Russian gauge line. The work cost EUR 109.3 million and was carried out in just over two years, instead of the three-year term that was planned in the development stage of the project.
“We feel proud of having had the opportunity to implement this project, since we realize that we are involved in a particularly significant activity aimed at a closer interlinking of Europe. … We are pleased that our skilled and ambitious specialists have successfully completed this project, which is of strategic significance to the entire Baltic States region,” Aldas Rusevicius, CEO of Kauno Tiltai, and Julius Gendvilis, CEO of Mitnija, said.
In this first stage of the Rail Baltica project, Kauno Tiltai and Mitnija also upgraded the electricity and gas systems and the rainwater and sewage drainage networks; they installed a new railroad signalling system and automated electric heating for the railroad switches.
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