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  • TBLISI: Russian Company Repairing Armenian Trains In Tbilisi

    RUSSIAN COMPANY REPAIRING ARMENIAN TRAINS IN TBILISI

    The Messenger
    Dec 6 2008
    Georgia

    The owner of Armenian Railways, South Caucasus Railways, which is
    itself a daughter company of Russian Railways, is repairing its trains
    in the Tbilisi railway yard. The pro-Government Armenian newspaper
    Aiots Ashkhar has made a huge scandal out of this. The newspaper has
    accused the Russian company of wasting investment funds on buying cars
    and apartments in Yerevan and paying an inordinately large amount of
    money for the repair of the trains. The director of the South Caucasus
    Railways, Aleksander Kuznetsov, denied these allegations at a press
    conference on December 2.

    Aiots Ashkhar claimed that the real cost of the repair works was
    supposed to be USD 200,000, but South Caucasus Railways is repairing
    the trains at a cost of USD 1.8 million. In response to this, Kuznetsov
    noted that the cost of new trains ranges from USD 4 million to USD
    6 million, and the cost of individual carriages from USD 80,000 to
    USD 120,000. "In fact repairing a train costs 1/3 of the price of a
    new one. I think we benefit, because most of the 42 trains owned by
    Armenian Railways are not functioning," Kuznetsov noted.

    Kuznetsov said that the body of each train and then its remaining
    parts have been sent for repair. The repaired trains are guaranteed
    to last for 35 years.
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