September 10 (SeeNews) - Serbian civil engineering company Energoprojekt [BEL:ENHL] has started works on a 52 million euro ($57.4 million) project for expansion and upgrade of a train depot in Zemun, the government said.
The project is financed through a 52 million euro loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the government quoted the director of state-owned passenger railway transport company Srbija Voz, Jugoslav Jovic, as saying in a press release on Monday.
The project aims to increase the capacity for maintenance of trains and works will be completed within the agreed period of 27 months, the CEO of Energoprojekt, Stojan Colakov, during the official ceremony for the start of the project.
Energoprojekt will carry out the project in a consortium with France's Colas Rail under a contract signed in June with Srbija Voz, the sole passenger service operator in the Balkan country.
The project includes the rehabilitation of the maintenance hall for Electrical Multiple Unit (EMU) trains, the depot for passenger coaches, the halls for external washing, facilities for acceptance and dispatching of trains, measuring stations for diagnostics of rolling stock, boiler rooms with compressor station, pump stations with carport, facility for temporary storage of waste, dormitory facilities and fences around the complex.
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