The Pakistan Railway has finalised a PC-I for procurement of 250 coaches out of which 186 will be manufactured in its Carriage Factory Islamabad (CFI).
The PC-1 has been forwarded to planning commission for approval. A tender to procure 800 high capacity hopper wagons would soon be floated, out of which 595 wagons will be manufactured at CFI, an official told APP.
He said that Pakistan Railways’ annual production capacity of CFI was 120 coaches and during last two years it had produced, rehabilitated and repaired 225 passenger coaches in the factory – 132 during 2013-14 and 93 during 2014-15.
Similarly, during previous two years, the number of productivity was 24 coaches in 2011-12 and 40 coaches in 2012-13, the official added.
