The Swiss railway manufacturer Stadler, has won a contract to make 530 sleeping train carriages for Kazakh Railways.
The order is worth over 2 billion francs.
The first carriages should be delivered in 2030 – there’s also the option to order more.
Not all the manufacturing will be in this country, Stadler is due to take over a factory in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
It has already shut down a plant in Belarus following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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