VOL. XLII

No. 21

24-May-1999

FSU

CPC Awards Telecom Contract To Siemens

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) has taken furthersteps towards getting the construction of its 1,500-km. pipeline into fullswing with the award of a $54mn telecommunications contract to Germany痴Siemens AG. A total of four contracts call for two Siemens subsidiaries inRussia and two in Kazakstan to assemble equipment supplied by Siemens AG andput it into operation. This includes laying a fibre-optic cable along the full...