Shortly before the IPO, the railway manufacturer Stadler Rail has drawn a huge order in the USA. The company from Eastern Switzerland has been obtained from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (Marta) the contract for the supply of 127 trains of the type Metro.
the value of The order amounts to about US $ 600 million. The contract contained two options for 25 additional trains, said Stadler on Friday.
The new trains were intended for use on the world’s largest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. For Stadler, this was the first large metro order in the USA and the largest order of the vehicle units in the history of the company.
sales of 2 billion
The contract, Stadler 127 deliver two-piece units, and that the first vehicles would be used, starting in the year 2023 in Atlanta. Stadler will assemble the trains for Atlanta at the new plant in Salt Lake City and, thus, the requirement in the contract, to provide at least 60 percent of the value added in the United States.
across the Group, several Metro projects are at Stadler currently in production. The Metro trains arrive in Minsk, Barcelona, Berlin, Glasgow and Liverpool.
Stadler will soon go public. The train manufacturer has implemented in the last year, 2 billion Swiss francs. (Dec/sda)
Created: 29.03.2019, 07:23 PM
