Morocco Awards $400 Million High-Speed Rail Contract to Chinese Firm Shandong Hi-Speed

After the award of the first lot to the Chinese company, China Railway Engineering Corporation (CREC 4), the ONCF has just entrusted the second lot to another Chinese company, Shandong Hi-Speed, for an amount of four billion dirhams, reports Le Desk.

The Chinese company won this contract after a bidding process in which other Chinese groups such as China Overseas Engineering Group, China Railway 20th Group, China Gezhouba Group, as well as the Moroccan company TGCC, participated, according to the same source.

The work to be carried out on this second section of about 60 km concerns earthworks, the construction of engineering structures, the rehabilitation of communications and the installation of fences. This four-billion-dirham contract awarded to Shandong Hi-Speed strengthens the participation of Chinese companies in this project.

Created in 1997, Shandong Hi-Speed is a Chinese state-owned company specializing in major railway projects and high-speed trains in this case.