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Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL) technicians yesterday asked an investor in the company, Rites Consortium of India, to support maintenance of locomotives and engines rather than sabotaging the firms rolling stock.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam soon after launching two rehabilitated locomotives, the local technicians called on the investor and other stakeholders to support their motives to revive the remaining eight engines which were left as scrap by the Rites management.
The call came barely four days after local engineers managed to rehabilitate two engines, which currently are operating smoothly.
TRL mechanical technician Hendry Luganga said the locally rehabilitated engines could manage to pull a minimum of 22 wagons.
He said there was no need for the government to import foreign engineers from India to revive the dilapidated engines.
Electrical technician Aulelius Mville said by the end of this week they were planning to release another three engines which were in the final stages of rehabilitation.
He said their aim was to show the investor that once enabled local engineers could perform better.
According to him, the rehabilitated engines travelled yesterday to Morogoro with 710 tonnes of luggage
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