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Publish Date : 13-Mar-2019

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has already issued an invitation for those who wish to file a proposed contract with the Philippine National Railways or PNR Clark Phase 2.

According to DOTR Undersecretary Timothy John Batan, it comprises three contract packages to build a railway viaduct with a distance of 53 kilometers from Malolos to Clark International Airport or CRK.

The National Economic and Development Authority Board approves PNR Clark Phase 2 as the first airport-railway link or rail link directly to an airport in the Philippines.

The project targets a total of P628 billion after and will be operational by September 2022. It can travel 550,000 passengers daily.

It will have stations in Malolos, Calumpit, Apalit, San Fernando, Angeles and CRK.

According to DOTr's terms of reference, it undergoes underground or underground trains, part of it when it comes to CRK.

Based on a note of the Department of Finance, an amount of P488 billion will be used for the project collaboration by Asian Development Bank or ADB and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The ADB will pay a total of P286 billion to build basic structures from railway viaducts, bridges and its stations while JICA funded for P201 billion for assembling trains and its electromechanical.

In addition, the Philippine government has allocated P140 billion of its own funds for PNR Clark Phase 2.

Meanwhile, the construction of a 38-kilometer Phase 1 from Tutuban in Manila to Malolos. The project is worth 149 billion pesos, of which 93 billion pesos are from JICA.

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