MRL East Coast Rail Link
Infrastructure project in Malaysia
MRL East Coast Rail Link
The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL, Malay: Laluan Rel Pantai Timur) is an under-construction higher-speed double-track railway project connecting Port Klang on the Straits of Malacca to Kota Bharu in northeast Peninsular Malaysia, linking the East Coast Economic Region states of Pahang, Terengganu, and Kelantan to one another and to the central region of the peninsula's west coast. The project is set to carry both passengers and freight from the west coast of Malaysia to the east, and vice versa. Construction began in August 2017. On 3 July 2018, Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd (MRL) instructed China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) to suspend all work under the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning contract of ECRL. The suspension was lifted a few months later after the signing of a supplementary agreement between MRL and CCCC in April 2019 on a revised construction cost and realignment of the southern route of the rail link. ECRL is realized by a semi-automatic Chinese...
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