Chinese company wins tender to upgrade Ukraine's Black Sea port -- The Beijing-based China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) has won the tender for a dredging project at Ukraine's Black Sea port of Chornomorsk, the Ukrainian authorities said on Mar. 14. The CHEC beat four companies from Ukraine and Europe with a bid price of about 15.6 million U.S. dollars, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) said in a statement on Facebook. Under the project, the Chinese company has to carry out the dredging at the port's approach channel and deepen one of the port's operational areas, it said. On the tender outcome, USPA head Rayvis Veckagans said, "The CHEC has already proved itself as a reliable partner with the dredging project at Yuzhny port."
Cambodia inaugurates 1st own-built bridge across Mekong River tributary -- Cambodia on Mar. 45 inaugurated its first own-built concrete bridge across a Mekong River tributary in southeastern Kampong Cham province. Speaking during the inauguration ceremony, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said the Koh Pen Bridge, which is 9.2 meters wide and 779 meters long, was built by the Defense Ministry's Engineering Unit at the cost of 13 million U.S. dollars. The construction took five years to be completed. "This is the first river bridge that Cambodia has constructed, and we will build more large bridges in the future," he said. "I'd like to publicly announce that from now on, Cambodia is capable of building bridges by ourselves across all rivers in the kingdom."
Third span of Bangladesh's largest Padma bridge installed -- Engineers of the China Major Bridge Engineering Company Mar. 11 installed the third span of Bangladesh's largest Padma Bridge. The 3,140-ton span (number 7C) was placed between pear-39 and pear-40 on Sunday morning. Bangladeshi government officials among others witnessed the installation process at a site of the bridge on Sunday morning. With the installation of the span, the third span among the 41 spans to be installed on the 6.15-km bridge, 450 meters of the bridge is now visible. It took about three hours for the engineers to complete the installation work of the 150-meter long span starting at 6:00 a.m. local time.
Tarbela 4th extension hydropower project inaugurated in NW Pakistan -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi inaugurated the Tarbela 4th extension hydropower project in Tarbela, northwest Pakistan, on Mar 10. At the inauguration ceremony, Abbasi said the project will help alleviate the power shortage in Pakistan and drive the country's clean energy development. According to the Prime Minister Office, with three units, the new extension is expected to generate 3.84 billion units of electricity annually, or the burning of one million tonnes of furnace oil. This will meet the power demand of two million households in the country. So far, only one unit of the Tarbela 4th extension hydropower project is generating power. All three units are expected to be put into use by mid-2018. The construction of the 1410 MW Tarbela 4th extension hydropower started in Oct. 2013 by PowerChina Ltd.
Chinese-made trains delivered to Malaysian airport rail link service -- China's CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd (CRRC Changchun) and Malaysia's Express Rail Link (ERL) unveiled the new train that will be used for the Kuala Lumpur International Airport rail link service on Mar. 13, concluding a deal signed in 2014 in which ERL agreed to buy six trains from CRRC Changchun. With the launch of the new trains, ERL's total capacity will be increased by 50 percent, said Mohd Nadzmin Mohd Salleh, executive chairman of ERL. Train departures will also be improved during morning and evening peak hours from the current 20-minute intervals to 15 minutes. Each of the 6 trains has 4 cars and can operate at a cruising speed of 160 kilometers per hour. According to a press release, the trains have more seats onboard, longer seats pitch and higher ceiling. It also has 15 percent more air-conditioning capacity.
Croatian firm Rimac sets up electric car JV in China -- Croatian company Rimac Automobili and China-based Camel Group are building a factory for electric motors and batteries in China, Croatian daily Poslovni Dnevnik reported on Mar. 14. The total investment is worth 158.2 million U.S. dollars. Rimac Automobili participates with 5 million euros (6.1 million U.S. dollars), knowledge and technology, while the rest is covered by Camel Group. In return, Rimac will receive 40 percent of the shares in the joint venture called Zhongkeluorui Technology Co. Ltd. The factory will be built in Xiangyang, a city in central China's Hubei province and will have a designed capacity of producing 50,000 units per year.
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