China to provide rail carriages to Sri Lanka (Xinhua) Updated: 2006-02-25 10:09
China National Machinery Import and Export Corp (CMC) on Friday signed an
agreement with the Sri Lankan Railway Department to provide 100 rail carriages
to Sri Lanka.
Zhao Jun, General Manager of Railway Business Division of CMC, and KA
Premasiri, General Manager of Sri Lanka Railways Department signed the agreement
at the department.
According to the agreement, each carriage is capable of carrying over 1,000
people and is expected to be brought to Sri Lanka within a year.
"There is a severe shortage of train coaches at the moment in the Sri Lankan
railway, the carriages were needed to provide a satisfactory train service to
commuters," Premasiri said after the signing ceremony.
CMC donated machinery and equipment worth US$200,000 to Sri Lanka for the
tsunami-hit country to repair its railway tracks on January 25, 2005.
The machinery and equipment donated by CMC include Rail Drilling Machine,
Rail Cutting Machine, Hydraulic Adjusting Sleeper Tool, Hydraulic Tamping
Machine, and Hydraulic Turnout Tamping Machine.
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