TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, October 11. Uzbekistan Tashkent Metro State Unitary Enterprise plans to purchase 160 subway cars from 2023 through 2024, Trend reports.
As per the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan, Tashkent Metro will receive 56 subway cars in 2023, while in 2024 the company will purchase another 104 cars.
The new carriages will be distributed between all four lines of the capital’s metro to shorten the interval of train traffic.
Tashkent Metro notes that currently, the average number of passengers using metro lines per day amounts to 700,000 people. Further, the number of passengers is continuously growing due to traffic jams on the roads.
In order to avoid overloads, six trains consisting of five subway cars were launched, and by the end of the year, their number is planned to increase to 13.
Earlier this month, Uzbekistan’s Tashkent Metro and TMH International, specializing in the production of railway equipment, signed an agreement for the supply of subway cars from Russia to Uzbekistan.
In his remarks about the signed agreement, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Jamshid Khodjayev highlighted the ongoing expansion of industrial collaboration between the two countries in sectors like machinery, electrical engineering, and chemicals, as well as in vital areas such as fuel and energy, mining, metallurgy, agriculture, and textiles.