China has exported 50 locomotives to Iraq, making it the large foreign buyer of Chinese locomotivesin a single deal so far.
These DF10FI locomotives, which were manufactured by the Dalian Locomotive Plant, recently left the Dalian Port in northeast China's Liaoning Province for the Middle Eastern country.
The DF10FI locomotive has a capacity of 1,840 kw, and has a top speed of 140 kph, according to sources.
The plant is the largest designer, manufacturer and exporter of internal combustion engines in China.
Since its first export to Myanmar in 1993, the factory has sold 205 locomotives, or 80 percent of the country's total exports, tonine foreign countries in contractual terms.
(People's Daily April 4, 2002)
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