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Article: Bombardier to Supply 14 High-Floor Light Rail Vehicles to Monterrey Mass Transport Authority in Mexico
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- CCNMatthews Newswire
- Article date:
- August 19, 2005
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MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(CCNMatthews - Aug. 19, 2005) - Bombardier
Transportation, along with its consortium partners Siemens and Grupo
Garza Ponce, S.A. de C.V. (a local civil works firm), announced today
that it had been awarded a contract from Monterrey's Mass Transport
Authority (Metrorrey) to design and build 14 high-floor light rail
vehicles (LRVs). The total contract is valued at approximately $244
million US, while Bombardier's share is valued at approximately $43
million US.
The manufacturing, testing and commissioning of the 14 high-floor
LRVs will take place at Bombardier's facility in Sahagun, Mexico.
Deliveries are scheduled to take place in the second half of 2007.
The new vehicles ...