Company Committed to Country’s Sustainable
Infrastructure Growth
GE Transportation, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE),
announced that the first China Mainline Locomotive (CML) will be
delivered around Aug. 30, 2008, to the Tianjin Port in Tianjin, China.
After being transferred to the Tanggu Depot for inspection, the
locomotive will make its way to China’s
capital Beijing.
Locomotive “CML 50001”
is the first of three hundred 6,000-horsepower Evolution®
Series China Mainline Locomotives being delivered to the Ministry of
Railways P.R. China (MOR). The contract was signed in October 2005 and
valued at $450 million.
GE Transportation is headquartered in Erie, Pennsylvania (USA), and will
supply the 300 locomotives in an industrial cooperation with Qishuyan
Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works (QSY) based in Changzhou, China.
With a peak output of 6,250-horsepower, the engine offers 40% more power
at 30% less weight than Evolution®
Series locomotives currently utilized in North America. The lighter
weight design increases the eco-friendly properties of the locomotive.
The Ecomagination-certified GEVO, 16-cylinder engine generates 84% fewer
emissions and increases fuel efficiency by 3 to 5%. Ecomagination is a
company wide commitment to developing technology designed to help
customers satisfy environmental challenges, to maximize performance and
reduce cost.
“The result of a eight-year, $400 million
development effort, the Evolution®
Series locomotive is the most technologically advanced, fuel-efficient
and low emissions diesel-electric, heavy-haul locomotive to-date,”
said Lorenzo Simonelli, President and CEO of GE Transportation. “GE
Transportation’s eco-friendly rail technology
is an integral part of China’s sustainable
Infrastructure development.”
Two Evolution®
Series locomotives will be shipped fully assembled from Erie,
Pennsylvania (USA), to Beijing, China. The remaining 298 locomotives
will be either manufactured as kits or parts at GE Transportation’s
U.S. headquarter facility and then assembled in China by QSY. Kits began
shipping on May 18, 2008. Delivery of the kits will be completed by the
end of 2009.
Lorenzo Simonelli hailed the shipment as a great milestone for GE’s
rail business, which is capitalizing on growth opportunities around the
globe.
