This is a new railway section completion project – New Algeria

The company in charge of completing the railway section linking… TendAnd the Gara Jbeilat mine As part of the Western Mining Line Project, it is laying the railway using a special train. It is expected that this project will be delivered at the beginning of 2025, while the Injazat Al-Ghaniya works will take place in March 2025.

It is noteworthy that the first section of the Western Mining Line project extends over a distance of 200 km from Bashar to the borders of the state of Beni Abbas, and is undertaken by a group of public institutions. As for the second section, it extends from Umm al-Assal to Tindouf at a distance of 175 km, and the task of its completion has also been entrusted to a group. Another for public companies.

The third section extends over a distance of 575 km and is undertaken by a group of companies led by the Chinese company “CRCC”. This section is divided into two parts, from the 200 km point to Umm al-Assal (Tindouf), at a distance of 440 km, and from Tindouf to Gaara. Jbailat, 135 km away.

This special train consists of eight locomotives for traction and 80 carriers of concrete sleepers and railway tracks, which allows the laying of the railway in this section, which extends over a distance of 135 km, “very quickly,” the same source adds.

This process comes after the Chinese Railway Construction Company “CRCC”, charged with completing this section within the Bashar-Tindouf-Gara Jbeilat Western Mining Line Project, which extends over a distance of 950 km, completed the preparation of “a large part of Bottom platform.”

The Chinese company’s use of this special train comes within the framework of the efforts of the “ANSREF” agency, as the owner of the project, to deliver the Western Mining Line project before the contractual deadlines set for March 2026, as previously reported by L/Waj, the agency’s director in charge of media, Abdelkader Mazar.

The Chinese company confirmed that the Tindouf-Gara-Jbeilat section will be delivered during the year 2025, as it completed, in addition to harnessing this special train, a unit for manufacturing cement beams with a capacity of 3,000 beams/day, in addition to completing units that produce 100,000 tons/day of gravel.