The precasting of 15,390 reinforced concrete rail track slabs for the Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway (HSR) has been completed by China’s Sinohydro Bureau 7 Company Limited. The 142.3 km HSR will be operated by PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia China (KCIC), a joint venture consortium of Chinese and Indonesian state-owned firms. Sinohydro Bureau 7 Company Limited has completed 51 per cent of the total precasting works and the remaining stretch will be taken over by PT Wijaya Karya, an Indonesian state-owned company.
The HSR, designed with Chinese technology, will reduce the travel time between Jakarta and Bandung to just 40 minutes.