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Libyan Rail Authority meets Chinese about restarting projects

bySami Zaptia
June 24, 2013
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Libya awaiting Chinese team for railway talks

The Chinese Rail Construction Company held talks with Libya's Rail Implementation Authority las week.

By Sami Zaptia

The Chinese Rail Construction Company held talks with Libya’s Rail Implementation Authority last week.

Tripoli, 22 June 2013:

 

The Libya Rail Implementation Authority and the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) met last Wednesday to . . .[restrict]discuss ways in which to reactivate  stalled rail projects, LANA reports.

The Chinese company has contracts to build various lengths of the railway from Tripoli to the Tunisian border of Ras Jdair and Tripoli  to Khoms, Sirte and Al-Hisha-Sebha.

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No details have been released on the outcome of the meeting. However, it was revealed that an attempt is being made to reach a framework agreement that would enable the reactivation of these projects.

Sources at the Rail Implementation Authority told LANA that the meeting was as a result of the decision by the Libyan government to press ahead with  the rail projects.

That decision was revealed on 26 February  this year by Transport Minister Abdel-Qader Ahmed . He disclosed  that he had already had talks with the Russians  abt restarting  their contracts.

Libya’s US$12 billion railway scheme was split between Russian Railways (RZhD), tasked with building the line between Sirte and Benghazi, and the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC).

The Chinese were awarded a contract in 2008 to build the line from Sirte to Khoms and then on to the Tunisian border at Ras Jedir. The Chinese also won the contract to build the 800-kilometre line between Misrata and Wadi Shatti near Sebha.

The railways project, which was thought to have been mothballed after the revolution, is now also being actively supported by Congress. In February, GNC spokesman, Omar Hemidan, said that it had tasked its Communications and Transportation Committee to choose a president and vice-president for the railways implementation project.

Despite wanting to revive it, the transport minister warned the Russians and Chinese in February not to increase their original contract prices by claiming for compensation for the two-year delay, during which costs of construction materials significantly increased.

He said that Libya would pay the companies 50 percent of what they were owed if they restarted work again under the original terms, with the rest of the fees being paid in two further 25-percent tranches.

The same offer has been made to Chinese, Turkish and other companies involved in building housing and other projects, providing they drop compensation claims. However, most have refused.

According to the minister, there is a Plan B if the Russians and Chinese refuse the railway offer. There is an alternative project with the Italians still on the table, he said, using Italian funds agreed as part of the 2006 US$5 billion compensation deal for the Italian colonialisation of Libya, agreed between Qaddafi and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. [/restrict]

Tags: ChineseCRCCItalianQaddafirailRussianSilvio Berlusconi

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