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GE trains on the way to Indonesia
General Electric (GE) Transportation is set to send another 16 locomotives to PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) by the end of this year
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eneral Electric (GE) Transportation is set to send another 16 locomotives to PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) by the end of this year.
GE Transportation president and CEO for greater China, North and Southeast Asia, Mohamed D. Butt, said that with the last shipment of 16 locomotives, his company would complete KAI's order of 100 CC 206 series locomotives, all of which are destined for the island of Java.
'We value KAI's long-term vision for Indonesia's railway,' said Butt. 'We will certainly help KAI increase efficiency [as with the new trains] it can accommodate more passengers and freight,' he added.
The CC 206 series is a newer than those currently owned by KAI. The locomotive has driver's cabins in the front and rear, so that it does not have to make a u-turn if it wants to go the other way.
Last year KAI also ordered 44 Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) locomotives. Both orders cost Rp 4.32 trillion (US$389.41 million).
