1/17/2007

Poland: CBRail and GE Transportation join up to provide modernised M62/ST 44 locomotives for Poland

CBRail and GE Transportation announced that the two companies has signed a purchase contract with GE Transportation for the modernisation of 20 M62/ST44 diesel electric locomotives in Poland, with an option for a further 10.
The M62/ST44 has been a solid workhorse of the Polish fleet over the years, but requires a modernisation programme to improve reliability and reduce operating costs.

Each locomotive will be fitted with a new GE Power module containing a FDL 12 engine, alternator and auxiliary equipment, and will meet UIC 2 emission requirements. Traction motors will also be upgraded by GE. GE Transportation has already successfully modernised several hundred locomotives of similar design in other countries, most notably Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

The units will be delivered for the Polish market between May 2007 and January 2008. In addition, CBRail and GE Transportation will be gaining German homologation for the locomotives in the course of 2007.

The rail market in Poland is seeing good progress with liberalisation. The modernised M62/ST44 locomotive offers private operators good value, reliable locomotives that will enable them to compete successfully in the market.

Mr Tadeusz Maguda of GE Transpoartion added that the company also takes part in the tender for modernisation of 18 (6 in 2007 and 12 in 2008) M62/ST 44 locomotives.

PKP LHS managed to revive its transport volumes after the company's main client, Mittal Steel, relaunched with full capacity production in its steel plant in Katowice.
Source:railway-market.pl



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