This is Malaysia East Coast Rail link and how this project affect Malaysia's Economic Condition

Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link, is an under-construction railway infrastructure project. Connecting from the Northeast City of Kota Bharu, to West Port on the strait of Malacca of Peninsular Malaysia. The overall alignment of the East Coast Rail Link network, was designed as such to provide a much-improved connectivity throughout the East Coast region, as well as connecting it to the West Coast. While at the same time, taking into consideration the potential growth for the industrial, commercial and tourism sectors along the ECRL corridor.

The 665-kilometer with 5 spur lines, provides 20 stations, comprising of 14 passenger stations, 5 combined passenger and freight stations, and 1 freight station. The line will take 4 hours, from Kota Bharu to Putrajaya.

The construction of East Coast rail link has been divided into 3 sections.

Section A. From the North, connecting Kota Bharu to Dungun. Which will see development of a 210-kilometer rail link in the states of Kelantan and Terengganu. It will have 6 stations. As of August, the section already reached 11.59% of civil work progress rate.

Section B. The inner section of the rail link, which will connect Kemasik to Maran. This 210-kilometer section, will connect the eastern part of the state of Terengganu, to the central part of the state of Pahang. This line will include 41 kilometers from 5 spur line station. Section B work progress, already reach 28.04% completion rate.

Section C. Will connect Temerloh to North and West Port, via KTM Jalan Kastam. The section will add 201 kilometers of the rail link, including 32 km spur lines. The last section of ECRL is still, in its planning stage to ensure the project would provide maximum economic impact.

Section A and B of Malaysia’s East Coast Rail, target completion date is still remain on January 2027. With 23.96% overall construction progress rate. While section C, will be completed by January 2028.

According to Malaysia’s Transport Minister, the project now estimated to cost 50 billion Ringgit. China Communications Construction Company Ltd, is the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contractor for the project. The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs or (IDEAS) said. That the government, had not made clear to the public, how the new project costs will impact the country’s economic condition. Particularly conditionalities of the loan from Export-Import Bank of China, including the interest rate. The Chinese interest in the ECRL, came from it being part of China’s mega Belt and Road Initiative, to push for global dominance.

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