A Chinese company on Friday handed over machinery and equipment worth 200,000 US dollars to Sri Lanka for the tsunami-hit country to repair its railway tracks.

The machinery and equipment donated by China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC) include rail drilling machine, rail cutting machine, hydraulic adjusting sleeper tool, hydraulic tamping machine, and hydraulic turnout tamping machine.

Zhao Jun, general manager of Railway Business Division of CMC, said that he hopes these donated items will service the drive of the repair and reconstruction of the railway facilities and infrastructure in Sri Lanka.

He said that the CMC is willing to establish long term cooperation with Sri Lanka's Transport Ministry.

In expressing his thanks to the CMC, Sri Lankan Transport Minister Felix Perera said that China "has always helped Sri Lanka, whenever we were in need."

According to Perera, the loss of Sri Lanka Railways in tsunami was estimated at 7 billion rupees (70 million US dollars).