Bangladesh Railway to purchase 10 engines from Korea

[bluesky]

Bangladesh Railway to purchase 10 engines from Korea
Published: May 17, 2018 16:58:33 | Updated: May 17, 2018 17:23:43

Bangladesh Railway (BR) on Thursday signed an agreement with Korean company Hyundai Rotem to purchase 10 metre-gauge locomotives at a cost of Tk 2.97 billion (Tk 297.63 crore).

BR Additional Director General (rolling stock) Md Shamsuzzaman and Hyundai Rotem Director (Global Rail) Kwang-Kyun-Yoon signed the deal on behalf of the respective institutions.

Railways Minister Md Mazibul Hoque, Secretary Md Mofazzel Hossain and BR Director General Md Amzad Hossain were present on the occasion.

According to the deal, Hyundai Rotem will provide engines within 24 months. The engines will be purchased with the finance of Asian Development Bank (ADB), reports BSS.

 

[Bilal9]

To those who are curious, Hyundai Rotem will be supplying the 2900 class in batches of 10 yearly. Older 2900 class locos will be refurbished at Pahartali Loco Shed I believe. We already have 39 of these GM (EMD) design locos (the one here is seen on dual gauge trackage) and they are as reliable as anvils. The model number is GT18 (to mean engine with 1800 HP).

 

[PradoTLC]

not indian made?..

 

[AMCA]

not indian made?..

Indian companies did not bid.

 

[Nilgiri]

not indian made?..

No real spare capacity in India for new loco exports. We are buying everything we make in the sector, and its not enough.

 

[PradoTLC]

No real spare capacity in India for new loco exports. We are buying everything we make in the sector, and its not enough.

lol...


okiee...

Indian companies did not bid.

they probably knew the result.

 

[bluesky]

I wonder, why the talented mechanical/electrical engineers of BD are unable to build the locomotives in the local railway workshop? What are the excuses for this? Should we blame Pakistan and India for something we are incapable to accomplish?

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

I wonder, why the talented mechanical/electrical engineers of BD are unable to build the locomotives in the local railway workshop?

You should know that, talented people leave Bangladesh as soon as they get an opportunity...

Thanks to Bangladeshi politics...

 

[AMCA]

they probably knew the result.

Is that the reason why you dont even manufacture a spoon in your country? Be happy with Chinese supplied locomotives.

On Topic: India despite having both Private and Public companies that manufacture locomotives is unable to meet the order book of Indian Railways. India has exported locomotives to Bangladesh in past. It can be that India no longer manufactures 1500 HP class engines. 12,000 HP is the latest addition to Indian Railways.

 

[Nilgiri]

Is that the reason why you dont even manufacture a spoon in your country? Be happy with Chinese supplied locomotives.

On Topic: India despite having both Private and Public companies that manufacture locomotives is unable to meet the order book of Indian Railways. India has exported locomotives to Bangladesh in past. It can be that India no longer manufactures 1500 HP class engines. 12,000 HP is the latest addition to Indian Railways.

Yes I believe 1300 - 1500 HP class were metre gauge designs like YDM-4, here is Vietnamese example @Viet @Viva_Viet @Aqsuperman @xiao qi :

http://www.railwaysinvietnam.com/D13E.html


....they are not really being produced anymore, all the capacity is transferred at DLW to broad gauge for any remaining diesel production:

http://indianrailways.gov.in/railwa...ch_engg_pu/downloads/2017/DLW 17-18,18-19.pdf

CLW and other producers have shifted to entirely electric locos now I believe. A large part of allocated workshop capacity is also for refurbishing of diesels (like WDG etc) to electric loco design or modernising them in general after the trial project was successful and now vetted:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...motive-into-electric/articleshow/63148718.cms

...electric propulsion is now the main objective:

https://www.thehindubusinessline.co...ew-locos-will-be-electric/article22660455.ece

https://www.thebetterindia.com/136589/railways-locomotive-coach-production-record-numbers/

There is more than enough (MG diesel) locos for the remaining metre gauge lines with no need to produce more esp given they will all be mostly converted to broad gauge in near future anyway....so unless there is a big export order from somewhere, I doubt they will allocate capacity to it.