Turkey has developed its own locomotive and is exporting it to Tanzania

The Turkish company Türkiye Rail System Vehicles Industry Inc. (TÜRASAŞ) has successfully developed the new DE 10000 diesel-electric shunting locomotive, which was designed entirely at its own production facility. Tanzania became the first foreign buyer of this railway equipment. 

The new locomotive is equipped with a modern Özgün Motor engine, which is also a purely Turkish design. The project was implemented as part of close scientific and technical cooperation between the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and TÜRASAŞ under the KAMAG state program, which aims to finance and develop key technologies domestically.

Turkey’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, emphasized that the new locomotive was built with a very high degree of component localization, and that all intellectual property rights to it belong to the state. The official added that the successful implementation of this project is the result of a consistent policy to strengthen the industry’s technological independence, which now allows the country not only to fully meet domestic needs but also to actively enter promising foreign markets.

This was reported by the Center for Transport Strategies (CTS).

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