Banaras Locomotive Works seeks to expand earnings through exports

Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW), a production unit of Indian Railways, is planning to expand on its earnings through manufacturing locomotives for export.

In 2021, it had completed an order of six 3,000 HP Cape Gauge locomotives to Mozambique. After the agreement for the order was made with Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) in November 2020, the locomotives were handed over from March to August this year, and it received an order for a seventh locomotive in September.

“The Mozambique order is significant because the entire thing was completed during Covid times.