With China’s help, Pakistan has embarked on a massive domestic construction of passenger and high-speed freight trains.
According to Pakistan Railways (PR), the achievement follows a successful technology partnership with China.
Detailed measures are being taken at PR offices in Islamabad and Lahore, where Chinese experts are playing an important role in upgrading the technological skills of Pakistani engineers and engineers. This transfer of knowledge enabled Pakistan to build modern independent railways.
Pakistan Railways Islamabad has been tasked to assemble 184 state-of-the-art passenger coaches in the next three years. This is expected to significantly improve the quality and capacity of the country’s rail system.
The project, part of a wider effort to modernize Pakistan’s infrastructure along the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), highlighted recent developments in railways, roads and economic zones industry during a meeting between Chinese Ambassador Jiangzaidong and Prime Minister Ahsan Iqbal in year Pakistan last month.
China is also playing an important role in the upgrading and circumvention of Pakistan’s Main Line-1 (ML-1) railway. The 1,872-km Karachi-Peshawar ML-1 was originally constructed in the late 19th century. The $6.8 billion modernization project aims to transform the vital corridor into a high-speed, two-track rail line.