FRANCE: CNR Jinan has completed the first of a batch of wagons ordered by leasing company Atir-Rail in June last year.
As well as marking CNR Jinan’s entry into the European market, it is thought to be the first European order for Chinese wagons since a build for Albania in the 1960s.
The contract covers 20 ammonia and 20 LPG wagons. Two wagons of each type are expected to arrive at Basel in Switzerland for testing next month.
ESTONIA: The first locomotive built by China Northern for a customer in the European Union was loaded onto a ship at the port of Tianjin on August 11. Estonian freight operator EVR Cargo announced the €30·2m contract for 16 single-cab shunting locomotives in August 2011. The 1 520 mm ...
BELARUS: The first of 12 Class BCG-1 electric locomotives being built for Belarus Railway was completed at CNR’s Datong plant in December. Ordered in October 2010 at a cost of 700m yuan, the 9·6 MW, 25 kV 50 Hz twin-section locos are derived from the HXD2 heavy-haul locomotives being assembled ...
ESTONIA: Freight operator EVR Cargo has announced a €30·2m contract for a consortium of China National Corp for Overseas Economic Co-operation and a CNR subsidiary to supply 16 diesel shunting locomotives. The 1 520 mm gauge DF7G-E locomotives will be built at CNR's Beijing February 7 works, with the first ...
