TEHRAN – Iranian Esfahan Steel Company (ESCO) has prepared and delivered the first cargo of Islamic Republic of Iran Railway (IRIR)’s rail orders (known as national rail) to IRIR on the occasion of Eid-al-Fitr.

According to ESCO, the mentioned cargo included 500 tons of U33 steel rails produced according to EU’s EN13674 standards, IRNA reported on Sunday.
As the project’s supervisor, the French-based international certification agency Bureau Veritas has verified and validated the rails according to their latest tests and assessments.
According to Mansour Yazdizadeh, ESCO’s managing director, with a production capacity of 400,000 tons per year, ESCO is completely capable of providing the country’s rail needs.
Earlier in May, Maziyar Yazdani, the deputy head of IRIR for infrastructure and technical affairs, said that India has agreed to supply ingots for the national railway and the sample rail will be approved by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2019).

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