UK group Balfour Beatty will electrify the Xinxiang-Heze-Ranzhou-Rizhao railway in China.

The £64m contract has been awarded by the Chinese Ministry of Railways.

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The company will deliver an overhead contact line and traction substations for the 616km double-track passenger and freight line.

Work is scheduled to finish in the summer of 2010.

The contract takes the value of the company’s recent international rail deals to £188m, Balfour Beatty said.

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