Mitsubishi Corporation: 180 cars delivered to Myanmar: Yangon, Mandalay Railway:
Mitsubishi Corporation:
On December 8, Myanmar Railways announced that it had received an order for a total of 246 new rolling stock for railways in the country.
The total contract amount is about 69 billion yen.
Yangon, Mandalay Main Railway:
It runs in the center of Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar.
We will deliver 66 cars for the ring road.
Delivered 180 cars for the main railway connecting Mandalay.
Development funds:
The Japanese government’s ODA loan will be utilized.
It is positioned as part of the railway infrastructure export policy promoted by the Japanese government.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQODZ0823X0Y0A201C2000000
MC Signs Rolling Stock Contracts with Myanma Railways
The total cost of both projects
is approximately 69 billion yen, which will be covered by an international-yen-loan agreement between the governments of Japan and Myanmar.
The cars, which will include Japanese components and equipment,
will be built by Spain’s largest manufacturer of rolling stock, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A.
They will be delivered to Myanmar in stages between 2023 and 2025.
The YCR Project
is part of the overall plan to upgrade and modernize the Yangon Circular Railway.
The cars delivered by MC
will run on the approximately 46 kilometers of track that loop around central Yangon, Myanmar’s largest commercial metropolis.
At present, it takes a train roughly 170 minutes to complete the loop, but the modernization plan should cut that to about 110 minutes.
Mitsubishi Corporation
https://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/pr/archive/2020/html/0000046336.html