Bombardier wins contract to provide 162 cars to Delhi Metro

VADODRA: Rail technology leader Bombardier Transportation has won a contract to supply 162 Bombardier Movia metro cars to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC).
The new trains will increase the number of DMRC’s existing fleet of Movia metros from 614 to 776 and make it one of the largest metro fleets in the world.
"The order is valued at around 15 billion Indian Rupees (204 million euro, 228 million US) and delivery will begin in the third quarter of 2016 and is expected to end in early 2018,"a release issued by Bombardier said.
"We are pleased to have received this new order for another 162 Movia vehicles for New Delhi. It is an excellent endorsement of our growing relationship with Delhi Metro who has already awarded us around US $1.2 billion worth of rolling stock and signalling contracts. These additional trains will be delivered from our state-of-the-art manufacturing sites in Vadodara,"Harsh Dhingra, chief country representative of Bombardier Transportation India, was quoted saying in the release.
Bombardier is also Delhi Metro’s largest signalling solutions contractor with over 120 kilometre of line in operation or in progress for Delhi Metro’s line five, six and seven.
"The high degree of localisation executed in the project at both Savli and Maneja sites (near Vadodara city) is in line with the Indian government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign that encourages local manufacturing,"the release further mentioned.
Bombardier Transportation employs around 1,100 people in the country. It operates a railway vehicle manufacturing site and bogie assembly hall at Savli near Vadodara in Gujarat. This is in addition to a propulsion systems manufacturing facility at Maneja, a rail control solutions centre near Gurgaon, Delhi NCR and an engineering centre in Hyderabad that serves key projects worldwide.