November 14-2014
For years, Iranian State Railways has been buying used freight cars from China, As a result, the majority of the freight cars in Iran are more than 45 years old, the railway system says. But it announced it would not renew the contrcts for used Chinese cars. Instead, it plans to buy new cars, starting with 1,000 to be made in Ukraine. It didn’t say why it would not buy cars made in Iran.