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Chinese company to build monorail in Indonesia

The China National Machinery Import & Export Corporation (CMC), together with Indonesia’s Panghegar Group, will fund a 992 million USD project to build a monorail system in Indonesia’s West Java province.
The China National Machinery Import & Export Corporation (CMC),together with Indonesia’s Panghegar Group, will fund a 992 million USDproject to build a monorail system in Indonesia’s West Java province.

The West Java provincial administration and CMC recently signeda Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the project, which aims atdeveloping transportation in Greater Bandung, including Bandung cityand five regencies and cities around Bandung city.

The MoU alsomentioned cooperation in drafting the Greater Bandung Metropolitanmaster plan, drawing up the feasibility study for the monorailconstruction, conducting environmental analysis and engineering designdetails for the project.-VNA
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