VILNIUS, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- LTG Infra, the infrastructure arm of Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), the country's state-owned railway company, which is implementing the Rail Baltica project in Lithuania, has signed three contracts worth 235 million euros (272.6 million U.S. dollars), Baltic News Service (BNS) reported on Tuesday.
The rail installation work will be carried out by joint venture partners Leonhard Weiss International of Germany and Leonhard Weiss of Estonia. The new section of track formation and structures will be constructed by contractor HISK, while the other section will be implemented by joint venture partners Fegda and Tilsta, LTG said on Tuesday.
Rail Baltica is the largest railway infrastructure project in the history of the Baltic countries, connecting Tallinn, Parnu, Riga, Panevezys, Kaunas, Vilnius and Warsaw. The total length of the line in the Baltic countries will be 870 km: 392 km in Lithuania, 265 km in Latvia, and 213 km in Estonia.
The entire Rail Baltica project linking the Baltic countries with Western Europe, is scheduled to be completed by 2030, while the link between Lithuania and Poland is expected to be completed by 2028. (1 euro = 1.16 U.S. dollar) ■
