01.12.2014

Palfinger Sany deal for Ethiopia

Palfinger Sany Mobile Cranes has won a $6.4 million contract to supply cranes and concrete equipment to Turkish construction company Yapi Merkezi for the new 389 kilometre Awash to Weldia railway line in Ethiopia.

The deal includes a range of Palfinger Sany truck, Rough Terrain and knuckle-boom loader cranes, as well as Sany concrete pumps and concrete mixers. The fact that Sany Plafinger could deliver both cranes and concrete equipment was cited as a distinct advantage by Yapi Merkezi.

The $1.7 billion Awash-Weldia project is part of an investment programme by Ethiopian Railway Corporation to connect northern Ethiopia with central regions, in a bid to drive economic growth in the country. It is one part of a plan to add 2.400 kilometres of new railway lines aimed at completing a comprehensive network.

Yapi Merkezi has experience in this area, having worked on the Dubai Metro Project, the Casablanca tramway or the Ankara-Konya high-speed railway.
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At the contract signing (L-R)Yan Zhang Palfinger Sany, Ibrahim Keresteci of Yapi Merkezi, Michael Gruböck of Palfinger Sany, Mehmet Balyaş of Yapi Merkezi, Herbert Ortner of Palfinger, Metin Deger , Taşkın Taş and Ersavas Güdül of Yapi

Michael Gruböck, managing director of Palfinger Sany in Germany said: “We are very proud to be selected to supply Yapi Merkezi, one of the world's leading transportation infrastructure companies, with our products for this important railway project of the Ethiopian infrastructure investment programme.”