It is our immense pleasure to inform you that Equinox (Pvt) Ltd has achieved yet another milestone in the “Up gradation of Bin Qasim Station”, the first signaling order in Pakistan Railways history that has been awarded to a local company. This is also the largest major signaling project ever awarded by Pakistan Railways in local currency.
This has established Equinox as being the only local Pakistani company to deliver and implement a state of the art CBI (Computer Based Interlocking) turnkey signaling project on a DDP Basis. Equinox won this project in an open international tendering process in September 2016.The project value is PKR 545 M.
The project comprises of supply/installation/testing/commissioning of imported and local equipment for the installation of CBI (Computer Based Interlocking) for efficient and proper train operation. Smooth and proper working of Bin Qasim station is critical in the supply chain of coal to the power plants up-country.
This project was divided into two phases by the customer. The first phase has been successfully delivered on 12th August, 2017. With the completion of this first phase successful train operation has been put into place by Pakistan Railways.
Phase 2 was successfully tested in May 2018 and its software installation was completed in December, 2018.
BQM Station Opening
