NANNING, Nov 30 (NNN-XINHUA) – A southern Chinese port, shipped the first batch of made-in-China steel tracks, to be used in Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway (HSR).
China Railway Nanning Group said, the track bars were loaded onto a ship in Fangchenggang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, after arriving on trains from their maker, Panzhihua Iron and Steel, in the south-western province of Sichuan.
Each measuring 100 metres long, the tracks boarded special trains to reach Fangchenggang, where they were cut into 50-metre ones, for the sea journey.
Construction of the 142.3-km Jakarta-Bandung HSR project, continued amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, after changes were made in safety and health procedures at the construction sites. Trains on the high-speed line will run at a designed speed of 350kph.– NNN-XINHUA
