Lebuhraya Borneo Utara, the project delivery partner for Malaysia’s Pan Borneo Highway project, has awarded a US$317.5 million contract to a joint venture of local Sarawak state firms.
The 70:30 partnership of KKB and WCT will rehabilitate and upgrade the Sungai Arip Bridge-Bintulu Airport Junction section of the highway. Piling works, earthworks, geotechnical, drainage, roads, pavings, as well as demolition and site clearance are all part of the contract, said WCT.
Work is expected to take four years and three months – 51 months.
Construction of a 43km stretch from the Nyabau to Bakun junctions, the Sarawak port city of Bintulu in March last year. When completed in 2022, it will cover 1,089 km on the island of Borneo, across the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. It will run from Telok Melano to Merapok.
Estimates for the completed highway have been around $7.14 billion. Included in the project is road works through the small coastal independent kingdom of Brunei, which is surrounded by Malaysian territory. The southern part of Borneo island belongs to Indonesia.
According to the website of Lebuhraya Borneo Utara, Sarawak’s major trunk road system today is the Federal Route 1, part of the Pan Borneo Highway or Trans Borneo Highway. It is mainly a two-lane single carriageway. Only 144km - 13% - of the trunk road from Sematan to Lawas is a four-lane dual carriageway. Travel across the vast state of Sarawak continues to be a long journey – up to 19 hours from Sematan to Miri.
The 70:30 partnership of KKB and WCT will rehabilitate and upgrade the Sungai Arip Bridge-Bintulu Airport Junction section of the highway. Piling works, earthworks, geotechnical, drainage, roads, pavings, as well as demolition and site clearance are all part of the contract, said WCT.
Work is expected to take four years and three months – 51 months.
Construction of a 43km stretch from the Nyabau to Bakun junctions, the Sarawak port city of Bintulu in March last year. When completed in 2022, it will cover 1,089 km on the island of Borneo, across the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. It will run from Telok Melano to Merapok.
Estimates for the completed highway have been around $7.14 billion. Included in the project is road works through the small coastal independent kingdom of Brunei, which is surrounded by Malaysian territory. The southern part of Borneo island belongs to Indonesia.
According to the website of Lebuhraya Borneo Utara, Sarawak’s major trunk road system today is the Federal Route 1, part of the Pan Borneo Highway or Trans Borneo Highway. It is mainly a two-lane single carriageway. Only 144km - 13% - of the trunk road from Sematan to Lawas is a four-lane dual carriageway. Travel across the vast state of Sarawak continues to be a long journey – up to 19 hours from Sematan to Miri.
