The Ministry of Transport, represented by the Land Transport Regulatory Authority, has initiated the executive procedures for the cabinet decision related to allowing the import and entry of locomotive heads within the age of less than 8 years instead of five years as was the case previously.
And the Minister of Public Works and the Minister of Transport / Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Authority, Engineer Maher Abu Al-Saman, stated that the decision comes in response to the demands of the land transport sector and operators in general, and in appreciation of the economic conditions of companies and individual operators while maintaining traffic safety.

For his part, the Director General of the Land Transport Regulatory Authority, Eng. Abdul Rahim Al-Wreikat, said that the Cabinet approved the recommendation of the Economic Development Committee based on the recommendations of the Board of Directors of the Land Transport Regulatory Authority, and in response to the demands of individual operators and companies, stressing that the decision included allowing the entry of the locomotive heads that had passed on It was manufactured less than 8 years prior to the year of clearance instead of five years as was the case previously.
The decision stipulated that the head of a registered, working and licensed locomotive be removed from service through deletion or re-export, provided that the acquisition license is valid and that the renewal of its license has not been interrupted for more than 6 months during the last two years of the replacement request.
Al-Wreikat indicated that the authority formed an executive committee to start implementing the decision, and the committee includes, in addition to the authority, according to Al-Wreikat: the Customs, Income and Sales Tax Department, and the Drivers’ Licensing Department, expecting the completion of the work of the committee before the end of this month.
Wreikat indicated that about 40% of the towing heads operators (out of about 21,000 vehicles registered with the authority) operating in the transit transport sector and to neighboring countries are threatened with leaving work due to the high costs of purchasing newly manufactured towing heads (less than five years old). ).
Al-Wreikat indicated that the new decision granted a large number of operators (about 14,000 freight vehicles) opportunities to renew their vehicles, noting that the operational life of some locally operating locomotive heads exceeded forty years.
He explained that a number of neighboring countries require that locomotives be allowed to enter their lands to be less than 20 years old, and therefore the decision will reflect positively on operators and give them opportunities to modernize their vehicles so that they can continue their movement by transporting transit and entering neighboring countries.
Al-Wreikat stressed that the Council of Ministers also allowed the import of locomotive heads that operate on electricity and in accordance with the system for collecting the special tax rate on vehicles No. 80 of 2000, indicating that the Council of Ministers assigned each of the Land Transport Regulatory Authority, Customs, Income and Sales Tax to complete the necessary procedures in this regard and in accordance with to the legislation in force.