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Rolling Stock Worth Over $13 Million Join Rail Fleet

Rolling Stock Worth Over $13 Million Join Rail Fleet
Rolling Stock Worth Over $13 Million Join Rail Fleet

A total of 169 domestically-made or overhauled rolling stock worth 3.52 trillion rials ($13.7 million) joined Iran’s rail fleet on Saturday.
Arak Province’s Wagon Pars Company, Isfahan’s Kowsar Wagon Company, Derakhshan Steel Company, MAPNA Company were the domestic companies engaged in manufacturing the newly-added fleet, IRNA reported.
Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami said on the sidelines of the event that the government banned the import of foreign rail fleet three years ago.
“The manufacture of domestic fleet is on track and a better use of the capacities of local rail companies, as well as finding novel ways to fund our projects can speed up our progress,” he added.
On Nov. 24, Iran unveiled its first domestically-manufactured locomotive after 10 years, called “Pars 33”, and with that Wagon Pars Company, which had ceased manufacturing locomotives around 10 years ago, officially resumed its activity in the field of locomotive production.

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