BANGKOK, 14 April 2015, (NNT)
State Enterprise Policy Office (SEPO) Directot Kulit Sombutsiri has disclosed that the
office would propose to the government that private companies be sole investors in
some dual track railway routes.
In the proposal, the private sector would be responsible for the construction of
the double-track rail routes, carriage procurement, signal and control system, and
operation and maintenance, adding that the government would help covering some of
the expenses of the project.
The scheme is different from those in the past, in which the government oversaw
engineering works and the rail systems and allowed private companies to take care
of procuring carriages and running the train services as well as maintenance. The
government then owned 80% in each of the project and private firms owned the rest.
