Do you know what it is like to serve overseas for 600 days and work overtime for 8 months?
CRRC Ziyang’s service group in Gabon is just experiencing.
Since 2021, due to the gradual rise of steel prices in the international market, the demand for manganese ore has increased sharply. Gabon, as a major exporter of manganese ore in Africa, has entered a bull market.
What Gabonese mining companies are facing is how to increase the transportation capacity and transport the manganese ore from the mine to the terminal safely and efficiently for sales. In summary, the locomotives are required to haul more, run faster, and be more reliable.
As the only company in China that provides locomotives for Gabon, CRRC Ziyang has successively provided 16 different types of diesel locomotives to Gabonese users.
In order to sufficiently take advantage of the rare bull market of manganese mines, the service team of CRRC Ziyang in Gabon strictly implements 24-hour duty service, reasonably make the annual inspection schedule, effectively shorten the annual inspection time of 7 days, break the record of annual inspection number in one month, successfully complete the original 5-month maintenance task in 1 month. Months of timely maintenance and detection of various hidden troubles have adequately guaranteed the locomotive traction needs of customers.
The service team has overcome the impact of COVID-19 and served overseas for 600 days and worked overtime for 8 months to ensure the efficient operation of CRRC Ziyang locomotive in Gabon, which has been highly appreciated by user.
What does the number 600 mean?
“600” is the number of days that Fan Bingmin, Wang Tao, Zhang Shaohong and Ling Hong have continuously worked in Gabon. “600” is the number of times that they have tried their best to complete the maintenance task. “600” is the number of video connections that they have with their family members who are are waiting for them to come home.
What does the 8 months mean?
The 8 months are the time that the second time of COVID-19 virus broke out. In the 8 months, Yang Zenghong and Zhang Qing led the team to overcome the virus and guarantee the demand of user.
By the end of July, Gabonese user had completed 121 hauling missions and transported 1.3 million tons of manganese ore, 8% higher than the transportation index under the same conditions.
At present, CRRC Ziyang has more than 20 employees who are engaged in maintenance and after-sales service in 8 countries including Gabon, Argentina, Australia, Angola, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Kazakhstan, etc.
In the difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic, they did not hesitate to stick to their position at the working front-line, providing high-quality after-sales service and transportation guarantee for overseas users!
Let us pay tribute to them!
