Kazakhstan signs contract for 295 Alstom-TMH locomotives

Impression of Alstom/Transmash KZ8A twin-unit freight locomotive for Kazakhstan.

KAZAKHSTAN: The Chairman of state railway Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, Askar Mamin, signed a €1·3bn firm order for 295 electric locotives with Alstom and Transmash Holding when President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on October 27.

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