A consortium led by Spanish firm FCC Construccion has announced that it has achieved 25% completion on the Spine tunnels for The Line at Neom. The consortium includes Beijing-headquartered China State Construction Engineering Corporation and the local Shibh Al Jazira Contracting Company as partners. In a social media post, FCC said that it is digging tunnels at a rate of 1.2 kilometres (km) a month. The tunnels are 8.7km long. The Spine is the infrastructure corridor running parallel to The Line and includes a high-speed rail network and the Connector South, which links the industrial zone, Oxagon, to The Line. US-based Aecom is the design consultant and Bechtel is the project management consultant on the Spine railway network project. This section is designed to accommodate high-speed trains, transportation vehicles and freight trains. In June 2022, contracts for the Mountain Running Tunnels were awarded. The FCC-led consortium won $2.7bn-worth of contracts for lots two and three of the scheme. A separate contract worth about $1.8bn for lots four and five was awarded to a team of Archirodon, Samsung Engineering and Hyundai Engineering.   For registration as supplier: https://www.neom.com/en-us/our-business/suppliers (ICE RIYADH)

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