Indonesian state-owned train manufacturer PT Industri Kereta Api (INKA) has continued to maintain a potential market in Bangladesh and meet the high demand for coaches in the country, an after sales staff of PT INKA Triono said.
"Actually, PT INKA has been active (in expanding its market), including to the Philippines. However, in Bangladesh, the demand is so high," Triono noted at Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital recently, according to a report by antaranews.com.
It said, Bangladesh still requires additional trains to serve its huge population.
"INKA first made a special coach for Bangladesh in 2005. It was then continued in 2016, when we had the project to provide 150 coaches, and now, the coaches have already been operated in Dhaka," he remarked.
PT INKA has won a tender to supply 250 passenger compartments to Bangladesh, and the initial delivery of the coaches would be done in January 2019.
"INKA has won the tender to procure 250 coaches, and hopefully, we would do the initial delivery to Bangladesh in January 2019," Triono elaborated.
The company is also participating in the tender to provide baggage and cargo cars, for which the process of document and price assessment is currently underway.
Meanwhile, Indonesian Ambassador to Bangladesh Rina P. Soemarno remarked that Bangladesh is keen on purchasing double-decker coaches from the company to balance the capacity of its public transportation with its population.
The country is also eyeing to procure the company's ambulance coaches as a precautionary measure to cater to the demand of special transportation to help victims of natural disasters.
"Bangladesh is also interested in luxury coaches, and PT INKA must win the tender to procure the luxury coaches," she added.
Indonesia's INKA to supply 250 passenger coaches to BD
FE Team | Published: November 24, 2018 22:10:14
Indonesia's INKA to supply 250 passenger coaches to BD
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