Kazakhstan’s electric locomotives assembly factory, Elektrovoz Kurastyru Zauyty, will start production of high-speed passenger locomotives in autumn 2016, said the press service of Kazakhstan Railways.
The high-speed locomotives will be able to travel at 200 km/h.
Such an electric locomotive – KZ4AT, designed by Alstom – was successfully tested on the Kiik-Moyynty railway.
Alstom managing director for the southern cluster of CIS, Bernard Pellet said the use of high-speed locomotives opens up new prospects in turning Kazakhstan into a center of the transportation corridor than links Europe, Far East, Asia and Russia through the new Silk Road.
In February 2016, Alstom and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) JSC have closed the deal of Alstom’s acquisition of an additional 25 percent in the Elektrovoz Kurastyru Zauyty (EKZ) joint venture formed by Alstom, KTZ and Transmashholding (TMH) to produce electric locomotives in Kazakhstan.
Hence, Alstom has become the main shareholder of EKZ with 50 percent of the shares, with KTZ and TMH both holding 25 percent of the joint venture.
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