CSR Gets its Virgin Show in North Africa

On March, 30, CSR won a distributed power DMU contract for Tunis, with a worth of near 100 million USD. As another major order of CSR in international market, it is also China s first order exporting wholly own-made railway equipment to Tunis.

With high technology, this is China s first export project of distributed power DMU. Being the first advanced DMU manufactured in accordance with European standard, it has two levels of luxury and ordinary. With the set of two-in-one organization group, each car has one driver cab and guest room.

There were five internationally renowned companies from France, Switzerland, and Spain etc. to attend the bid. Through technological and commercial bids, CSR finally outstand via its advanced technology proposal and advantage in price. It is CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. that is assigned to implement the project.

Tunis locates in North Africa, along Mediterranean, with a population of 10.2 million, 90% of which are Arabian. In a list of economic development and overall competition of 131 countries, it takes the place of No.32 and No.1 in African countries. It now has 23 railways in a length of 2167km.

The success exploit of Tunis market symbolizes that Chinese enterprise entered North Africa in terms of railway equipment field for the very first time. Accordingly, the smooth implementation of the project will undoubtedly exert influence on the surrounding countries as well as lay solid basis to build international CSR and promote its brand.