Qatar Railways Company has awarded QR20bn ($5.49bn) of construction contracts to build the 216km Doha Metro line linking Doha city center with many of the World Cup stadiums. Contracts worth QR8bn to build underground sections of the 12km-long Red Line South between Doha city center and the airport have been awarded to a consortium of QDVC, a firm owned by Qatar sovereign wealth fund Qatari Diar and French construction company Vinci, South Korea-based GS Engineering and Construction, and the local company Darwish Engineering, Al Sharq said quoting the UAE's The National newspaper.
A second QR8bn contract to build the 15km-long underground sections for the Green Line, which runs north-south through the city, was awarded to a consortium of the Austrian company Porr, Saudi Binladin Group and the local HBK Contracting Company. And a QR4bn contract to build stations at Msheireb and Education City went to South Korea's Samsung C&T, Spanish construction firm OHL and local builder Qatar Building Company.
The Peninsula
3 June
