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Iran unveils first domestically-made locomotive diesel engine

MP610, Iran’s first indigenously-made locomotive diesel engine

Iran has unveiled its first domestically-manufactured locomotive diesel engine with 4,000 horsepower, placing itself among the countries enjoying such high-level technology.

The diesel engine, going by the name of MP610, was unveiled on Monday in an official ceremony attended by Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Abbas Aliabadi and the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, in Alborz Province, west of the capital Tehran.

Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Abbas Aliabadi unveils MP610, Iran’s first indigenously-made locomotive diesel engine, in a ceremony on May 13, 2024.

Indigenized by Iranian experts and engineers, the 4,000 horsepower engine was designed and manufactured by the MAPNA Group, a leading holding company founded in 1993 with more than 70 subsidiaries that has established itself as Iran’s largest contractor of power plant projects and a key player in rail transportation and oil and gas projects within the country.


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