Bombardier Receives an Order for the Delivery of 26 Trams to the City of Marseille.MONTREAL -- Bombardier Transportation received an order from the Communaute Urbaine Marseille Provence Metropole (CUMPM) for the delivery of 26 bi-directional Bombardier FLEXITY Outlook trams. The new 100% low-floor trams will be put in service on the new tram network of Marseille that will open at the beginning of 2007. The value of the contract amounts to approximately $81 million US (61 million Euros). Deliveries are scheduled between September 2006 and April 2007. "This order by the second largest city in France demonstrates the trust in our engineering competence and the implementation of a truly innovative and aesthetic industrial design. We are looking forward to soon present the realisation of the vehicle as a 1:1 mock-up mock·up also mock-up n. 1. A usually full-sized scale model of a structure, used for demonstration, study, or testing. 2. A layout of printed matter. in Marseille," stated Andre Navarri, President, Bombardier Transportation. The FLEXITY tram for Marseille is based on a proven modular technology that features a 100 % low-floor interior while using conventional wheel-set bogies which offer excellent dynamic characteristics in terms of comfort and safety. The vehicles also include the Bombardier's MITRAC propulsion and control system featuring the latest electronic technology. The FLEXITY concept allowed a high degree of freedom to tailor the vehicles to the exclusive and innovative design created by MBD MBD methylene blue dye bindng test. See sabin-feldmann dye test. MBD Minimal brain dysfunction, see there Design for CUMPM. The maritime background of the city is reflected in several aspects of the design: especially wide windows give a feeling of transparency; natural wooden seats and blue interior colour scheme accentuate the Mediterranean influence. Vehicles of the same family are in successful revenue service in the cities of Linz (Austria), Lodz (Poland) and have recently been put in service in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. (Switzerland) and Eskisehir (Turkey). They have also been ordered by the city of Brussels The City of Brussels (French: Bruxelles-Ville or Ville de Bruxelles, Dutch: Stad Brussel) is one of the municipalities (the largest one) of the Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium and is the official capital of Belgium. (Belgium). Bombardier Transportation in France operates primarily at its Crespin site in the Valenciennes region. In the French market, Bombardier Transportation participates in all TGV TGV: see railroad. programs and manufactures a wide range of rolling stock for public transport. Among these products are the MF 2000 vehicles for the Paris metro, the Strasbourg, Nantes and Saint-Etienne tramways, the recent vehicles for the RER RER Regione Emilia-Romagna RER Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum RER Respiratory Exchange Ratio RER Real Exchange Rate RER Réseau Express Régional (French commuter rail in Paris) RER Replication Error RER Rental Equipment Register network and the TER Third version. See bis. 2N NG regional transport railcars. Bombardier Transportation also signed a contract with SNCF SNCF Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (French National Railways) SNCF Sans Nous les Cafés Ferment (French) for the supply of 500 TER (Regional Express Trains) of the Autorail Grande Capacite (AGC) type for the French regions. About Bombardier A world-leading manufacturer of innovative transportation solutions, from regional aircraft and business jets to rail transportation equipment, Bombardier Inc. is a global corporation headquartered in Canada. Its revenues for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2004 were $15.5 billion US and its shares are traded on the Toronto, Brussels and Frankfurt stock exchanges (BBD BBD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Barbados Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. , BOM and BBDd.F). News and information are available at www.bombardier.com. Note to Editors A photo is available on our Website at the following address: http://www.transportation.bombardier.com/photography.jsp Bombardier, FLEXITY and MITRAC are trademarks of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries. Bombardier Transportation (TSX:BBD.A) (TSX:BBD.B) |
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