| The Russian holding will supply components to Ukraine for the production of mainline freight electric locomotives As it became known, CJSC Roslokomotiv, created by Transmashholding (which unites six factories that produce products for railways) to manage its locomotive-building plants - Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive and Bryansk Machine-Building Plants - signed on December 1 a contract with the Ukrainian JSC Luganksteplovoz on a joint production of 51 mainline freight electric locomotives from Russian components worth several tens of millions of euros. This project will allow the Ukrainian railways (SE “Ukrzaliznytsia”) to completely cover the need for mainline freight electric locomotives of the VL-80 type by 2010.
According to a source in Roslokomotiv, another Ukrainian enterprise is the State Enterprise Plant named after. Malysheva" (Kharkov, Ukraine) also showed interest in cooperation. Currently, representatives of Russian and Ukrainian companies are considering various options for joint production of diesel generators for shunting and mainline diesel locomotives. The possible interest of the Russian company in a joint project with the Ukrainians is quite obvious. As part of Transmashholding, the Bryansk Machine-Building Plant produces diesel engines for shunting diesel locomotives. At the same plant, within the framework of a long-term agreement signed between JSC Transmashholding and JSC Russian Railways (JSC Russian Railways), until 2010, fundamentally new mainline and shunting diesel locomotives are now being developed, prototypes of which are planned to be created in 2005 year. In 2005, NEVZ will make two new mainline freight electric locomotives 2ES5K for JSC Russian Railways, the presentation of a prototype of which will take place at the end of December this year. Nikolay SEMENOV |
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