📋 Tender Overview
The Railway Administration and DB Netz have concluded a contract with a supplier to ensure project preparation for the cross-border section of the high-speed line VRT from Prague to Dresden. The designers will soon start work on documentation for the upcoming Ore Mountains Tunnel.The key public contract which brought the almost 30-kilometer Krusnohorsky tunnel closer to its actual implementation was announced by the Railway Administration and DB Netz as a so-called joint contracting authority. Thus the successful international cooperation continues which will result in the completion of this important cross-border section of high-speed railways.Leading European companies engaged in the design of transport structures took part in the tender procedure. The competition was won by an association of companies led by the Austrian company ILF Consulting Engineers Austria Gmbh which will prepare documentation for the zoning decision for the Krunohorsk tunnel connecting Heidenau and st nad Labem on a new route. The cross-border tunnel project will be collaborated not only by foreign experts with experience from similar European constructions but also by experts from the Czech Republic. Designers will begin work on documentation in the coming days. It should be done in 2024.The Ore Mountains Tunnel is part of the new high-speed line Dresden - Prague. The feasibility study envisages its use for passenger and freight transport which will allow the transfer of up to 150 trains carrying goods from the Elbe Valley. This will help to reduce the noise load around existing lines. At the same time the commissioning of the tunnel will radically reduce the driving time from st nad Labem to Dresden. Express trains carry passengers on this route in less than half an hour.The planned railways will be part of the TEN-T trans-European network and will connect the Czech Republic to the existing high-speed rail system in Western Europe which has been in operation for several decades. At the same time the new lines will free up the capacity of the existing lines thus enabling the further development of regional transport.
