v**e
发帖数: 8422 | 1 China to export first light rail train to Turkey
By Sui-Lee Wee | Reuters – 17 hrs ago
tweet6
Share
Email
Print
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will soon send its first shipment of domestically
produced light rail trains to Turkey, state media said on Sunday, even as a
deadly high-speed train crash in late July threatens to undermine the
country's plans to export its train technology.
The light rail trains, manufactured by China's CSR Zhuzhou Electric
Locomotive Co., Ltd. will go into service in Izmir, Turkey's third-largest
city, Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily said. They will roll off
assembly lines this week, it added.
The paper quoted Xu Zongxiang, the company's general manager, as saying that
the company sees the Turkish light rail project as its first step into the
European market, and it is confident that it will be able to provide high-
tech railway technologies and services to other countries and regions.
CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd is a unit of the Hong Kong-listed
CSR Corporation Limited.
The news comes just two days after China's second-biggest train maker said
it would recall 54 bullet trains used on the new showcase Beijing-Shanghai
line for safety reasons, dealing a fresh blow to the nation's scandal-
plagued rail system.
The recall of the trains by China CNR Corp Ltd comes three weeks after 40
people were killed in a high-speed rail crash that triggered public fury,
unusually bold media coverage and a freeze on approvals for new railway
projects.
China's high-speed rail drive was until recently held up by senior
government officials as a trophy of the nation's technological prowess. Now
it has become a political albatross, drawing scorn from many citizens long
frustrated with the hulking railways ministry.
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Alex Richardson) |
|
