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GE aims to supply locomotives for Sumatra and Sulawesi
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A technician performs a final check on the locomotive of a 20-container freight train set to serve the Jakarta-Surabaya route at the Surabaya Freight Terminal in East Java. The Transportation Ministry launched the freight train service to provide an alternative form of transportation and reduce the burden on Java's northern coastal highway. (JP/Wahyoe Boediwardhana)
US-based General Electric (GE) aims to supply locomotives for railway services on Sumatra and Sulawesi islands.
The routes are still under development and targeted to be finished by 2019 for Sulawesi and 2021 for Sumatra. The government says the projects are not affected by the recent budget cut.
"We are still waiting for the tender, we will submit it immediately," GE Indonesia operations president director David Hutagalung told The Jakarta Post during a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing between state-owned railway operator KAI and the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) in Jakarta on Friday.
Between 2014 and 2016, GE supplied 150 new locomotives to KAI. In June, GE received a maintenance order for 50 KAI locomotives made by GE with the contract value of US$60 million.
"Our locomotive’s local content reached 24 percent, the bogie is made by state owned PT Barata Indonesia and assembled by PT Industri Kereta Api (Inka)," David said.
Other than GE, KAI also has options to source the locomotives from Inka. The state-owned company has produced CC300 locomotives since 2013. (bbn)
