The Bangladesh Railways will discover the opportunity of importing prepare units for mass commutation corresponding to DEMU from ICF Chennai. The prepare units that Bangladesh Railways seeking to import will probably be much like those that have been exported to Sri Lanka and Nepal by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) lately. A group of officers from Bangladesh Railways would quickly go to ICF to additional the method of export of coaches from ICF to Bangladesh.
Mohd Nurul Islam Sujan, minister for Bangladesh Railways, together with Sardar Shahadat Ali, ADG (operations), Bangladesh Railways visited ICF on Thursday to see the manufacturing services on the LHB shed of ICF. They additionally inspected particular coaches made by ICF corresponding to LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) Vistadome coaches, LHB AC 2 tier and three tier coaches and air-conditioned self-propelled inspection vehicles (SPIC), stated a launch by ICF.
ICF had, up to now, exported numerous sorts of coaches corresponding to MG first-class, MG eating automotive, MG second class, MG energy automotive, MG postal and parcel Van to the tune of about Rs 100 crore.
During discussions with A Okay Agarwal, GM, ICF and different officers, Mohd Nurul Islam Sajan stated that since Bangladesh has now taken up the undertaking of changing its meter gauge tracks to broad gauge, the LHB coaches from ICF could be of nice assist in modernising Bangladesh Railways. He stated that the cooperation between Indian Railways and Bangladesh Railways has an extended historical past and ICF has performed an important function within the improvement of railways in Bangladesh. He stated that he was impressed with the Vande Bharat coaches and different coaches made by ICF, it added.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”