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Trainmaker PT INKA eyes Tanzanian market
State-owned trainmaker PT INKA has offered its products to Tanzania during a recent visit of the company’s executives to the East African country
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Members of Indonesian delegation led by PT INKA delegation (right) led by general manager of overseas marketing and product development Bambang Kushendarto meet with Tanzanian officials during a recent visit to the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam on May 17. (Courtesy of /PT INKA)
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tate-owned trainmaker PT Industri Kereta Api (INKA) has offered its products to Tanzania during a recent visit of the company’s executives to the East African country.
A PT INKA delegation led by general manager of overseas marketing and product development Bambang Kushendarto met with officials of Tanzania’s Public Works, Transportation and Communications Ministry, and representatives of Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL), in Dar es Salaam on May 17.
“This is expected to be the first step for PT INKA to explore the potential railway in Tanzania,” Bambang said in a statement received on Wednesday.
(Read also: Indonesia exports 150 passenger trains to Bangladesh)
In the meeting, Tanzanian Public Works, Transportation and Communications Ministry’s assistant director of railway services Festo Mwanyika gave a positive response to the offer, saying that affordability was one of the country’s main considerations for purchase certain products.
"The products that we need are simple; they are affordable and can be operated well,” he said, before asking for a detailed explanation about the funding scheme through Indonesia Exim Bank.
A similar response was expressed by officials of the TRL in a separate meeting, during which the Indonesian delegation also received information about the revitalization and expansion of railway networks in the country by TRL chief commercial manager Shaaban J. Kiko and chief of corporate planning and management services Hassan A. Shaban.
Members of the Indonesian delegation included INKA’s overseas marketing manager Welly Mulyono, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy director of the directorate of African affairs Fery Iswandy and Indonesian Embassy to Tanzania’s economic department head Sherly Ponti Windarfi.
In April, 2016, PT INKA shipped 15 train cars to Bangladesh, the first batch of the total shipment of 150 train cars ordered by Bangladesh Railways. (bbn)
