The China-made bullet trains, with a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour(km/h) set off from E China’s Qingdao for Indonesia on Sunday.
The trains, customized for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) are scheduled to arrive in the port of Jakarta, Indonesia in late August.
The 142-kilometer railway will cut the journey between Jakarta and Bandung from more than three hours to around 40 minutes.
The high-speed electric multiple units (EMUs) and the comprehensive inspection train (CIT) were designed and manufactured as per the Chinese standards of Fuxing bullet trains.
They, meanwhile, are being adapted to the local operational environment and line conditions in Indonesia.
The HSR project, also the first high-speed railway in Indonesia and Southeast Asia began construction in June 2018.
The whole line is expected to be operational by mid-2023.
China’s high-speed rails span different conditions including extremely cold weather frozen soil, mountainous areas, deserts, wet coastal areas and tropical regions.
As of the end of 2021,the high-speed rails in China have exceeded 40,000 kilometers accounting for more than two-thirds of the world’s total high-speed rail length.
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