ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) and GE Transportation on January 17 signed the Agreements on the purchase of diesel locomotives and the service of passenger locomotives. The documents were signed during the visit of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the United States.
The Agreements provide for the delivery of sets for 300 shunting locomotives, the final assembly of which will be carried out on the basis of JSC Lokomotiv kurastyru zauyty in Kazakhstan. The delivery of the first two locomotives is scheduled for 2019, the rest during the next 10 years, KTZ said.
The contract for maintenance of 175 passenger locomotives was concluded for a period of 18 years.
“During the years of successful cooperation with GE Transportation, we were convinced of the effectiveness of joint work and the great potential for further development of the strategic partnership. GE technologies were chosen as the main ones for the development of locomotive facilities in Kazakhstan, joint projects were implemented to modernize and service diesel locomotives, to produce freight and passenger locomotives in Astana,” said Kanat Alpysbaev, the head of KTZ.
“The new agreements are aimed at modernizing our locomotive fleet and will allow expanding the line of locomotives produced in Kazakhstan, and their servicing,” said Alpysbaev, adding that “the products will be focused on the needs of Kazakhstan, the CIS market and the Baltic countries.
During the period of cooperation with GE Transportation, Lokomotiv Kurastyru Zauyty JSC has produced over 300 modern Evolution locomotives for the railway industry in Kazakhstan and the CIS countries.
On January 16, KTZ and US companies DHL Global Forwarding Co., Ltd and John Deere signed a cooperation agreement in the field of transport and logistics.
The agreement provides for the creation of a center for consolidation and distribution of John Deere products on the Eurasian market in the territory of the FEZ Khorgos-Eastern Gate on the Kazakh-Chinese border.
Since July 2017, a transit multimodal logistics service has been established for the oversized equipment of John Deere through the Dry Port of the FEZ Khorgos – Eastern Gate on the route from China (Jiamisu) through Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
