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A feasibility study for a Transrapid rail link from Munich city to its airport is to be presented to the German transport ministry. There would be a 8.06 km tunnel for an estimated cost of €339 million. The stretch would cost €1.5 billion altogether, with €31 million of annual profits expected. Transrapid is a high-speed electromagnetic levitation train built by Siemens and ThyssenKrupp. Visit www.bmvbw.de and www.transrapid.de 05/02.Negotiated procedure, deadline 17th November, 2005 for study of engineering requirements for the future tunnels on the magnetic levitation line planned between Munich main station and Munich airport. There will be three tunnels segments totalling 2 x 8 km of tunnel and the cross passages. Read E-News Weekly 31/2002. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=194600-2005, OJ S 197, or contact Deutsche Bahn, Berlin, fax +49 3029 58459. E-mail Bimal.Mazumder@bahn.de 43/05.Negotiated procedure, deadline 1st August, 2006 for full design, construction and 20-year maintenance of the maglev line planned between the central station and the airport in Munich. The project includes tunnels. Read E-News Weekly 31/2002. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=082410-2006, OJ S 78, or contact DB Magnetbahn, Munich, fax +49 8913082559. E-mail roland.b.mueller@bahn.de 19/06.



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