Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) and a South Korean consortium signed the design contract for a 70 km section of the Katowice – Ostrava high-speed line, which will ensure the connection between Poland and the Czech Republic.
The consortium which won the PLN 134 million (EUR 30.2 million) contract comprises Korea National Railway (KNR) and Dohwa Engineering which has implemented more than 7,000 projects.
Thanks to the new railway line, which is part of the Visegrad Group V4 railway, Upper Silesia will become an important transport hub in the entire Three Seas region. The Polish section implemented by the CPK assumes the movement of trains at a speed of up to 250 km/h.
The project will ensure the inclusion of the city of Jastrzębie-Zdrój in the railway network, as well as new, much faster regional connections from Rybnik, Żory and Wodzisław Śląski to Katowice. This is a civilisational leap that will eliminate the communication exclusion of this part of Silesia, CPK says. The railway will cover as many as 3.6 million inhabitants of this region of Poland.
This is one key section of the railway lines built in Poland by CPK and is an important element of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) connecting Katowice, Warsaw and Kraków with Brno, Prague, Bratislava, Vienna and Budapest.
Katowice – Ostrava high-speed line is among the 2,000 km of new conventional and high-speed rail lines to be built by CPK. In addition to this line, the company has already selected five investor variants for Warsaw – Łódź, Łódź – Wrocław, Łętownia – Rzeszów, and from May also Sieradz – Poznań.
Currently the design of a 140-km Warsaw – Łódź route and a 200-km route between Łódź and Wrocław is underway. The first one is being developed by Biuro Projektów Metroprojekt on the section from Warsaw to the area behind the planned CPK hub, and a consortium of Egis Poland, Egis Rail and Jaf-Geotechnika is responsible for the further section of the line up to Łódź.
The Łódź – Sieradz line is being designed by Egis, while Sieradz – Kępno section has been awarded to the consortium of BBF and IDOM. The design of the route from Kępno to Czernica Wrocław is being prepared by a consortium of MGGP and Voessing Polska, and Systra is responsible for the section Czernica Wrocław – Wrocław.
More than 400 km of CPK railway spokes are currently being designed.
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