Cuba gets China's first trains exported to Latin America

Cuban President Fidel Castro descends from one of
the 12 locomotives manufactured in China and bought
by Cuba, in Havana, 14 January 2006.
AFP PHOTO/Ismael FRANCISCO

Monday,  January 16, 2006

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): President Fidel Castro on Saturday happily took delivery of China's first trains exported to Latin America and the Caribbean, part of Cuba's strategy to improve the country's persistent transport problems.

Castro came out personally to the rail-yards here see the 12 trains -- as well as 80 buses -- purchased from China, a key economic ally of the Americas' only communist-ruled state.

The trains, which cost more than 15 million dollars to make and ship here, are diesel-electric model DF7G-C, and run up to 120 km/h, official reports said.

They were shipped a month ago from Tianjin, China.

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