News about HSR

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 12): George Kent (Malaysia) Bhd said both the company and Siemens Aktiengesellschaft of Germany and Singapore-based Siemens Pte Ltd (collectively referred to as Siemens) will now work with Alstom, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and PORR to prepare a joint offer to bid for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high speed rail (HSR) project.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 8): The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project has garnered more than 35,000 responses — a record number of public feedback for rail-based public transportation projects in Malaysia — over the course of its recently-completed three-month public inspection exercise, said MyHSR Corp in a statement today.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 6): Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA) Johor chairman Liew Toh Sen believes the Johor property market is recovering albeit slowly.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 24): IJM Corp Bhd is hopeful of achieving a new all-time-high total order book of RM10 billion by the end of the financial year ending March 31, 2018 (FY18).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 23): Malaysia's MyHSR Corp Sdn Bhd and Singapore's SG HSR Pte Ltd, who jointly held a briefing on the assets company (AssetsCo) tender for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail project (KL-Singapore HSR) today, assured every bid will be assessed on its own merits.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 23): Malaysia’s 14th general election’s (GE14) outcome is unlikely to affect the execution of rail projects such as the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (KL-SG HSR), said HSBC Bank Malaysia Bhd chief executive officer Mukhtar Hussain.

YTL Corp Bhd (Jan 17, RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 17): Following YTL Corp Bhd emerging as one of the five known joint venture (JV) consortiums bidding for the project delivery partner (PDP), operating company (OpCo) and assets company (AssetsCo) tenders for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR), CIMB Research views this positively as it could increase its chances of securing an HSR contract.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 15): Japanese firms will offer substantial equity participation to Malaysian and Singapore companies, while setting up cooperation in a myriad of areas, if they are successful in bidding for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project.

Construction sector Maintain overweight: The tender for the project delivery partner (PDP) to undertake the Malaysian portion of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) infrastructure construction works was called on Nov 22, 2017, and will close on Jan 30, 2018.