Austrian construction company Alpine, along with its German joint venture partner H.F. Wiebe, has been awarded a contract to rehabilitate 24 kilometers of the north-south railway line in the Republic of Macedonia.
The railway line is part of the Pan-European Corridor X.
The €7 million required to rehabilitate the railway line will be financed entirely by the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development).
The contract comprises the rehabilitation and cleaning of the ballast bed, replacing the existing wooden ties with modern concrete ties and laying new tracks on the 12-kilometer, single-track sections from Tabanovce to Kumanovo in the north and from Miravci to Smokvica in the south of Macedonia.
The Pan-European Corridor X links Central and Southern Europe over a length of 2,500 kilometers.
