China to construct 25 locomotives for Sudan – minister

June 9, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — China have agreed to construct 25 locomotives with Sudanese specifications at a cost of cost of $89 million, announced Minister of Transport and Roads and Bridge Eng.

Following his return from China, Akual Nyang said that a memoranda of understanding has been signed with the Chinese Locomotives Company, the biggest Chinese companies operating in locomotive manufacturing in the world, to manufacture 25 locomotives for Sudan, provided that ten of them are to be delivered in six months time.

He added that the Chinese company, the biggest in trains’ technology worldwide, produces around 320 locomotives annually and exports its products to all parts of the world.

The Indian Central Railway workshop at Golden Rock has despatched in October 2005 three modified ‘Cape Gauge’ locomotives to the Sudan Railway Corporation (SRC), as part of an agreement signed between SRC and the Railway Technical and Economic Services (RITES) India. Under the agreement, 10 modified surplus Metre gauge locomotives will be exported to Sudan.

(ST)