Railcar Fleet Modernization and Development of Domestic Engineering

Kazakhstan has 21,000 km of railway tracks, carrying millions of tonnes of freight and nearly 20 million passengers annually. However, the wear rate of freight railcars has reached 54%, while that of passenger railcars stands at 42%. Fleet modernization has remained one of the industry's most pressing issues for several years. Businesses are responding by increasing production. Today, the RWS Wagon plant in Petropavlovsk (part of Railways Systems KZ Holding) manufactures 12 types of rolling stock, ranging from bogies to passenger and freight railcars. Read more at the link.