Narrative
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Project narrative
On July 29, 2011, China Eximbank and the Government of Indonesia signed a $68,724,795 preferential buyer's credit (PBC) agreement for Phase 1 of the Railway Equipment Project. The borrowing terms of the PBC are unknown. The agreement went into effect on April 26, 2012 and the loan was fully disbursed. The purpose of the project was to facilitate the acquisition of railway equipment — specifically, 1,000 km of railway track (type UIC-54) and 100 wesel units (or Pengadaan 1000Km Rel dan 200 Unit Wesel) — for the Directorate General for Railways within the Ministry of Transportation of Indonesia. China Eximbank also provided a $175 million PBC for Phase 2 of the Railway Equipment Project (captured in Record ID#39365).
Staff comments
1. This project is also known as Phase 1 of the Turn Out Project. 2. The China Eximbank loan that supported this project is not included in the Overseas Development Finance Dataset that Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center published in December 2020.