Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Summary

The original Project (ADB Loan 2288-CAM) involves (i) rehabilitating 594 kilometers (km) of existing railway track and associated structures, passing loops, and spur lines in Cambodia; (ii) reconstructing 48 km of destroyed railway line to Thailand; (iii) constructing direct railway access to the container terminal in the port of Sihanoukville; (iv) restructuring the railway subsector; (v) assisting employees made redundant because of the restructuring; and (vi) providing consulting services and training for project monitoring, engineering design, and supervision of civil works. The original project is estimated to cost the equivalent of $73.0 million.

The supplementary financing (ADB Loan 2602-CAM) will be used to (i) establish a new freight and rolling stock maintenance facility at Samrong, 10 kilometers west of Phnom Penh; (ii) upgrade or strengthen parts of the main line to enable early initiation of integrated multimodal services; and (iii) establish additional sidings to terminals to facilitate multimodal connectivity. The supplementary financing investment cost is estimated at the equivalent of $68.6 million. The combination of the original project and the supplementary financing will be referred to as the modified project and will push the total cost of the modified project to the equivalent of about $141.6 million.

Technical Assistance (TA) for Outcome Monitoring and Procurement Review will be provided to Cambodia’s Ministry of Public Works and Transport for (i) outcome monitoring; and (ii) procurement review for the works to be added to the project scope through variations to the existing contracts. This will be done through a TA with an estimated cost of $0.45 million. The Government of Australia will finance the TA from its proposed grant for the project (AusAid Grant 0178-CAM) and to be administered by ADB.

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