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Rolls-Royce secures €100m order to supply 232 loco engines for TFR

6th February 2015

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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Consortium China North Rail (CNR) Rolling Stock South Africa (RSSA), led by Chinese locomotive manufacturer CNR Dalian, has ordered 232 MTU Series 4000 engines from Rolls-Royce Power Systems for State-owned Transnet Freight Rail’s (TFR’s) new freight locomotives.

The €100-million order will see the delivery of Rolls-Royce subsidiary MTU’s “most powerful” loco- motive engines between 2015 and 2017.

CNR RSSA was one of the four companies selected to supply TFR with 1 064 locomotives as part of the parastatal’s R50-billion locomotive procurement project.

CNR RSSA will supply 232 diesel locomotives at a cost of R7.8-billion, while China South Rail Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive will supply 359 electric locomotives at a contract value of R14.6-billion, excluding hedging and escalation costs.

Bombardier Transportation South Africa will supply 240 electric locomotives at a base cost of R10.4-billion and General Electric South Africa Technologies will supply 233 diesel locomotives at a base cost of R7.1-billion.

The first 20 of the 3 300 kW, type 20V 4000 R63L engines, produced at Rolls-Royce Power Systems’ headquarters in Friedrichshafen, Germany, will be delivered directly to CNR, while subsidiary MTU South Africa is planning addi- tional assembly capacity to accept the balance of the engines for final assembly, testing and preparation.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Magazine Managing Editor

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