Germany will soon send a 20-member team to India to explore collaboration with Railways, Rainer Schmiedchen, Consul Generalin Kolkata, said.
The team, consisting of the European nation's top Railway and Economic Ministry officials, will arrive this week.
The Consul General said, "They (delegation) will like to outsource production capacity to India. Price pressure in Europe rail sector is on the higher side. They are looking for new sources of procuring."
The delegation will also see the production sites of Eastern Railway, Schmiedchen told reporters on the sidelines of the Indo-German Business Conclave organised jointly by Assocham and VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau - German Engineering Federation). According to the Consul General, bilateral trade stood at 16 billion pounds.