On Aug 1ahead of Railroad Man's Day on Aug 2 South Caucasian Railway launched a new tech motrice in Gyumri. The new rolling equipment is designed to carry out check inspections of the railroad transport infrastructure.
SCR CEO Victor Rebets has informed that the motrice is equipped with surveillance cameras and has a special function for overhead system inspections.
The board of administrators launched the motrice construction in March 2015. A number of high-rank officials - Russian ambassador to Armenia, parliament deputy speaker Hermine Naghdalyan and other were present at the ceremony. In turn, Shirak governor decorated V. Rebets with a Medal of Honour.
CJSC "South Caucasian Railway" is a 100% subsidiary of JSC "Russian Railways" and provides concession management of Armenian railroads. CJSC "Armenian Railways" was referred to the concession management to the company "SCR" according to the Concession Agreement signed on February 13, 2008. The term of the concession management is 30 years with possible extension for another 10 years.