photo: STM press materials/Kazakhstan´s Silkway Transit welcomed the first Black Granite electric locomotive.
Sinara Transport Machines Holding successfully delivered the first Black Granite to Silkway Transit with eight more locomotives to follow by the end of December.
This deal can get perceived as one of the greatest export contracts for suppliance of traction rolling stock between Russia and Kazakhstan to this day. The company ordered a total of 22 electric locomotives to be used on the heavily used section of Kazakhstan’s main line: Karaganda – Nur-Sultan – Pavlodar, and Shymkent – Almaty.
Ural locomotives - a joint venture of JSC Sinara Transport Machines (STM) and Siemens is the producer of Black Granite locomotives, which includes an asynchronous traction drive that provides greater traction force.
This optional condition was included in the contract at the request of Silkway Transit.
Each 2ES7 locomotive will undergo an additional trial operation procedure, including 3,000 km of a linear run before the actual commercial use. This alternative request was one of the Silkway Transit´s contractual conditions.
“The 2ES7 electric locomotives are one of our advanced developments and we are exporting them for the first time. I hope that Black Granites will be able to satisfy all the business goals of our partners and I believe that this delivery will be the first step in our further long-term mutually beneficial cooperation,” said Dmitry Pumpyansky, the President of Sinara Group.
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