Wagon Pars

Wagon Pars
IndustryRail Transport
Founded1974; 50 years ago (1974)
FounderIDRO Group
Headquarters
Arak
,
Iran
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Morteza Mollanejad (CEO)
Products
OwnerMAPNA Group
Number of employees
900 (2020s) 
Websitewww.mapnawagonpars.com

Wagon Pars (in Persian: شرکت واگن‌ پارس, Sherkat-e Vâgon Pars) is an Iranian train and locomotive manufacturer established in 1974,[1] in Arak.[2] Products include locomotives, trains, metros, freight and fuel railroad cars, and equipment for passenger boarding of aircraft.[1] It is the largest rolling stock manufacturer in the Middle East.

Iranian Railways AD43C locomotive production at Wagon Pars

History

Wagon Pars began rolling stock manufacturing in 1984.[3] In 1999, the factory reached an agreement with GEC-Alsthom to produce under license the Iranian Railways AD43C mainline locomotives.[4][5][6]

In 2007 the company manufactured Iran's first express train: a four coach, 252 passenger, 160 km/h train.[7] In 2009 the company had a production capacity of 1,800 vehicles per annum, and was operating at 20% of that figure.[3]

In the first decade of the 21st century the company received export orders for Cuba, including a 60 billion rial order for 550 freight wagons,[8] (completed Sept. 2009[9]) and 200 passenger vehicles[10] Also in 2009 the company obtained a €80 million contract with Vietnam Railways for the supply of 200 passenger vehicles - 40 of which would be produced by Wagon Pars, the remainder assembled in Vietnam as part of a technology transfer agreement.[11][12][13]

In 2009 and 2010, workers at the Wagon Pars factory staged protests due to lack of payment of wages; the company is thought to be in financial difficulties due to mismanagement. The acquisition by Iran Khodro during the 2005-2010 privatization of Iranian industries is claimed to have contributed to the company's poor financial state.[14]

In May 2010 the company announced it was going to help set up a rolling stock factory in Syria. The plant is to have a production capacity of 300 wagons, and also be able to repair passenger coaches.[15][16]

In August 2018, the Iranian Ministry of Defense declared it had unloaded its shares in Wagon Pars.[17] In 2019, the company broke its production record by building 411 cargo and passenger wagons in a year. The company said it had the capacity to make 150 passenger wagons and 1,000 cargo wagons per year.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b "Wagon Pars Company". investing.businessweek.com. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Wagonpars Company - About Us". wagonpars.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Iran: 17 Billion Euro Foreign Investment in Rail Industry". payvand.com. Payvand. 19 August 2009.
  4. ^ "Iranians to build AC diesels". railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette International. 1 February 1998.
  5. ^ "Main line Locomotive AD43C (Under License of Alstom)" (PDF). wagonpars.com. Wagon Pars Co. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2011.
  6. ^ "ALSTOM to supply 100 diesel-electric locomotives in Iran". alstom.com (Press release). Alstom. 27 October 1999. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011.
  7. ^ "Iran Manufactures 1st Express Train". iran-daily.com. Iran Daily. 3 February 2007. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009.
  8. ^ "Wagon Pars sells 550 wagons to Cuba". Tehran Times. 10 August 2009.
  9. ^ "World rolling stock market September 2009". railwaygazette.com. Railway Gazette International. 17 September 2009. Iranian firm Wagon Pars has supplied 100 covered vans to Cuba under a 60bn rial contract, completing an order for 550 wagons
  10. ^ "Wagon Pars selling 200 passenger rail cars". cubastandard.com. 28 May 2010.
  11. ^ "Finalizing contract to build 200 train wagons for Vietnam" (PDF), IDRO English Bulletin (7), Industrial development and renovation organisation of Iran (IDRO): 4, August 2009
  12. ^ Iran to Export Passenger Cars to Vietnam, Moj News Agency, 18 June 2009
  13. ^ "Iran to Build Wagons for Vietnam", english.farsnews.com, Fars News Agency, 6 June 2009
  14. ^ Sources:
    "Crisis at Wagon Pars". iranlaborreport.com. Iran Labor Report. 3 February 2010.
    "Workers of the Wagon Pars Factory on Strike". hopoi.org. Hands Off the People of Iran. 31 August 2009.
    "Iran: Wagon Pars workers stage sit-in over unpaid wages". marxistcom. 3 September 2009.
    "1700 Iranian workers on hunger strike". hopoi.org. 13 October 2009.
  15. ^ "Iran's Wagon Pars to open factory in Syria". menafn.com. 16 May 2010.
  16. ^ "Iran to Establish Wagon Production Plant in Syria" (PDF), IDRO English Bulletin (11), Industrial development and renovation organisation of Iran (IDRO): 4, September 2011
  17. ^ Iran Defense Ministry Claims It Has Divested From Civilian Businesses, Radiofarda.com, 27 August 2018
  18. ^ Record in Wagon Pars Rolling Stock Production, Financialtribune.com, 13 January 2020

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