Pakistan Railways (PR) will purchase 300 new freight coaches at a cost of $25 million to improve its service, an official at the Ministry of Railways said Monday. The ministry has approved the PC-1 of the project that would be executed shortly.
All the carriages would be imported and the project will meet the urgent demand of Pakistan Railways, the official said. He said the new coaches would help generate more revenue and would make the freight service faster than ever. "The new freight coaches would run at a speed of up to 100 kilometres per hour which is highest ever speed in the country", he said.
Though the Pakistan Railways is engaged in manufacturing the 1300 wagons at local level yet it has decided to import 300 boggies as well, the official said. He said out of 1300 wagons, more or less 1,000 have already been manufactured while the rest would be completed soon.
The official said that these wagons are being manufactured in the Pakistan Railways workshop in Lahore. "He said Pakistan Railways has decided to purchase more freight coaches in order to overcome the loss it faced in the riots followed by the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistan Railways has also urged the private national and international companies to avail the Open Track Policy initiated by PR which allows private parties to operate their own rolling stock while paying track access charges to the Railways, the official maintained.
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