Saudi Arabia has given within 14 months of the Spanish consortium responsible for building the high-speed line between Medina and Mecca, facing many difficulties , announced Tuesday the Spanish Minister of Public works.
During a visit to a play in Spain, the minister Ana Pastor revealed the new deadline of 14 months as from Riyadh to companies involved in this work and commitment Arab country to pay arrears, according to a spokesman for his ministry.
the spokesman could not specify the new date for the entry into service of the line, originally scheduled for 2016 and already delayed.
Pastor realized that the results of a visit to Saudi Arabia President of the Spanish consortium, Pablo Vazquez, who also chairs Renfe.
the minister added that Riyadh has agreed to pay the consortium “as soon as possible” the sums owed. The Spaniards had complained about delays in payments of several months.
The consortium consists of 12 Spanish companies and two Saudis had won at the end of 2011, the contract for the construction of a railway line high speed amounting to 6,700 million euros.
This consortium had imposed on its German, Japanese and French competitors, the largest contract ever for Spanish firms.
it is about building a line covering 444 km between Mecca and Medina, the second holy place of Islam, so that millions of pilgrims to travel at high speed, at a rate of 166,000 a day.
But the project has been found with several technical obstacles. In a desert whipped by strong winds, sand accumulates in several sections
The consortium, formed mainly by the Spanish construction group OHL (Amsterdam: OH6.AS – news)., The network manager Spanish railway company Adif and technological Indra (Madrid: IDR.MC – news), has encountered significant cost overruns and disagreements over the sharing of responsibilities (Other OTC: UBGXF – news).
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