DB Engineering and Consulting (DB E&C) has signed a contract to oversee the electrification of Uzbekistan’s 452-kilometre-long Bukhara-Urgench-Khiva railway line.

The Uzbek railway section Bukhara-Urgench-Khiva is to be electrified

This will support the Ministry of Transport and Uzbek Railways’ goal of introducing high-speed rail services, which will reduce the time it takes to travel by train from the capital, Tashkent, to the western city of Urgench by an impressive 11 hours.

High speed rail also has the ability to help boost tourism in the country, increase the capacity of its transit corridors and reduce CO2 emissions.

The contracts were signed last month, during the 6th meeting of the German-Uzbek Economic Council’s economic forum, at a ceremony attended by the country’s Prime Minister, Abdulla Aripov.

This is the latest project to come from DB E&C’s strategic partnership with Uzbekistan, which came into being in May 2019. This was created in order to optimise Uzbeck Railway’s activities, expand logistics potential and transit corridors and advance digitisation.

In addition to this new project, DB E&C has already been involved in supervising construction of three other rail projects in the country, including the construction of the Kamchik railway tunnel on the Angren-Pap line and the extension of the Tashkent Metro line.

Work will begin on the new electrification project this autumn.

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