๐ Tender Overview
Expected Start of Operations : 2028
Construction of 43km interurban light rail line linking Haifa with Nazareth. The light rail transit project between Haifa and Nazareth will be 41km long and will feature 20 stations.
The Shekels 5.9bn ($US 1.6bn) line from Haifa Bay Bus Station to Hamusakhim Junction in Nazareth will serve 26 stations, nine of them with park-and-ride facilities.
The specification calls for a fleet of 32 52m-long LRVs, which will accommodate 300 passengers. LRVs will operate at up to 100km/h on interurban sections of the route, where distances between stations will be greater.
Management of the project will now pass to the Cross Israel Highway Company, which will be responsible for tendering.
The light rail line is a national project which will strengthen Haifa as the capital of northern Israel.
Trans-Israel, a project management agency of the Israeli Ministry of Transport and Road Safety, will oversee the development of the project, which will link the cities of Haifa and Nazareth.
The light rail public transit project will connect communities across the Galilee and Haifa metropolitan regions. The investment in the project is estimated at NIS6bn ($1.85bn).
The proposed light rail service is expected to have an annual ridership of approximately 30 million passengers, while daily ridership is estimated at 10,000 passengers an hour in each direction.
Project benefits
The Haifa-Nazareth light rail project will provide a large-scale public transportation network, which is efficient and ecologically sustainable.
It will connect towns in the countryโs outskirts to major cities.
Contractors involved
Dana Engineering, in collaboration with Spanish company IDOM, received the project management contract. Ricardo Certification, an independent accredited assurance and testing company focused on rail and other sectors, was awarded a tender to provide consulting services for the supervisory independent safety assessment (SISA) of the project.
TRANS Israel, the company overseeing the Haifa-Nazareth tram-train project, has announced the bidders approved to participate in a tender to finance, design, build and operate the 41km line. The contract is worth between Shekels 3bn ($US 920m) and Shekels 4bn.
The companies shortlisted are:
group 1: Dan Bus (Israel), CREC (China), Pesa (Poland), Shenyang (China), ATM (Italy)
group 2: Shapir (Israel), CAF (Spain), Keren Noy (Israel)
group 3: Minrav (Israel), Electra (Israel), Alstom (France), Allied (Israel)
group 4: Comsa (Spain), Globalvia (Spain), Transmashholding (Russia), Lesico (Israel)
group 5: Meir (Israel,) Afkon (Israel), CRRC & CRCC (China), and
group 6: Shikun u Binu (Israel), Egged Transportation (Israel), Stadler (Switzerland), Hitachi (Japan), Texmaco (India), Downer (Australia).
