Canadian firm gets Delhi's $590m metro car order
Afp, New Delhi
Canada's Bombardier, the number one supplier of underground railway vehicles worldwide, said it has won a 590 million dollar order to supply 340 subway cars to New Delhi. The trains will be used to provide public transport during the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi in October 2010, the Canadian train and plane maker said in a statement late Thursday. Deliveries of the trains are slated to begin in the last quarter of 2008 with completion set for 2010, Montreal-based Bombardier Inc said. The carriages are intended for the second phase of New Delhi's metro which will expand the existing network by 60 kilometers (40 miles), covering all major destinations in the east-west and north-south corridors of the capital. "We are very excited to be able to add the city of New Delhi as a new metro customer," said Andre Navarri, President, Bombardier Transportation. Bombardier has sold metro cars to such cities as New York, Paris, London, Berlin and Shanghai. Navarri said he hoped the project would pave the way for Bombardier to win contracts to supply other Indian mass transit projects that the company intends to pursue in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Chandigarh.
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