COSTA RICAN TIMES
The national railway, the Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles (INCOFER), awarded to China’s CRRC Qingdao Sifang the contract to supply eight two-car diesel multiple-units for use on commuter train services in the San José Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM).
The announcement to buy the 8 new train units with capacity for 400 people was made back in November 2017, with the Incofer’s announcement of the modernization of the train in Costa Rica, when it announced five work actions in the process of “Modernization of the Passenger Rail Transportation System”.
The plan includes the expansion of the Alajuela and Paraiso de Cartago rail, a free app to allow access to schedules, rates, map route and the purchase of the trains, a process that was to have started in December of
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