21 Feb, 2020 @ 16:57
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Spain’s Renfe wins record-breaking €5.5 BILLION contract to operate new high-speed rail link in the US

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RENFE has been awarded a €5.56 billion contract to operate a high-speed rail line in the US. 

The Spanish state-owned company will run the line between Dallas and Houston in Texas in what is the biggest ever contract won by a state company outside Spain.

According to Cinco Dias, the deal will be signed with Texas Central Partners, which is looking into extending the line between Austin and San Antonio.

Renfe will not be involved in the construction nor provide the trains for the project, which will create some 11,500 jobs in total.

The line will transport travellers between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth (386km) in less than 90 minutes.

Renfe bosses will do a final review of the contract on Monday before it is signed by Renfe America, the US arm of the company.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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