On August 8, XCMG Railway Equipment Co., Ltd. held the ceremony to celebrate shipping of its railway erection & hoisting units to Ethiopia, which will be used in Weldiya-Mekelle Railway Project contracted by CCCC First Highway Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
The railway erection & hoisting equipment ready to be shipped
The 180-ton railway erection & hoisting unit is the large bridge construction unit developed and manufactured by XCMG for building railways of less than 200km per hour, which includes the bridge girder erection machine, girder transporting vehicle, etc. It can ensure the on-site inverted installation, transport and building. Featured by extensive adaptability, safe operation, high automation, stable start, braking and operations, it has won great praise from the clients.
Case of Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway
Case of Zhengzhou-Xuzhou High-speed Railway
Located in the northeastern part of Africa, Ethiopia has two thirds of its territory covered by plateaus. With average sea level at nearly 3,000 meters, the country is known as the Rooftop in Africa. It is the bridge and bond along the Belt & Road that connect Africa.
Precast plant of WM railway project in Ethiopia of CCCC
Weldiya-Mekelle Railway is the northern section in Ethiopia Railway Line 5. As the economic and transport axis in central and northern Ethiopia, the WM Railway is 218km long, along which 20.62% are bridges and tunnels. It has 70 bridges totaling 32.868km. The project adopts the design and construction standard of China. Pillared on freight transport, it is the national-railway II single-line railway transporting both passengers and cargo, which has one principal station and three intermediate stations.
One railway line can initiate an era. From the Tanzania-Zambia Railway in the 1970s, to the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway, Nairobi-Marab Railway and Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, China is building the lifeline that runs across the continent of Africa, providing African people with a key to the future so that they can get into a new era featuring harmony and win-win situation, thus realizing the African Dream of poverty reduction and development.
As the professional provider of bridge, tunnel and mine engineering equipment, XCMG is China’s largest manufacturer of construction & engineering machinery. It will play a more important role.
XCMG along the Belt & Road
Since the Belt & Road Initiative was proposed, China has established closer relations with countries along the Belt & Road and more frequent corporate contacts. Countries and regions along the Belt & Road are major overseas markets of XCMG, accounting for 72% of its total export values. Nowadays, XCMG products have been sold to 57 countries and regions along the Belt & Road. At present, XCMG has 67 Primary Overseas Dealers, 72 overseas spare-part centers, eight branch companies and 13 offices.
In 2017, XCMG’s exports to countries and regions along the Belt & Road increased considerably. Nowadays, XCMG products take the largest share of exports to 30 countries along the Belt & Road, taking more than 50% of exports to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Philippines and Pakistan, etc.
