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Lithuania invites tenders for 100 million euro locomotive contract

30 September 2004, 15:46 CET


Lithuania's state railway company on Thursday invited tenders for a 100-million-euro (124.1-million-dollar) locomotive contract from Alstom of France, Bombardier of Canada and German group Siemens.

"The offers to start negotiations were sent to the companies which met qualification requirements," Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (LG) said in a statement.

A consortium of Russian companies Kolomensky Zavod and Power Machines was not invited to negotiations because it had failed to meet the tender requirements.

The LG tender for 34 new locomotives is a part of major modernization project expected to cost 450 million litas (130 million euros, 161.7 million dollars) this year.

October 25 is the deadline to present the offers in a tender which is expected to be concluded by the end of 2004.

LG also has begun the preparation of other new projects valued at 1.2 billion litas, including a high-speed train and hopes for one billion litas in assistance from European Union funds.

Lithuania joined the EU on May 1.

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