Bombardier Transportation Awarded Contracts in France and Germany for a Total of $135 Million.MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 1999-- (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :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. .A.) (ME:BBD.A.) (TSE:BBD.B.) (ME:BBD.B.) Bombardier Transportation Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Bombardier group. Bombardier Transportation is the world’s largest company in the rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin. has been awarded contracts in Europe for approximately CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. $135 million. France Bombardier Transportation has received orders from SNCF SNCF Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (French National Railways) SNCF Sans Nous les Cafés Ferment (French) of France (Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer) for the supply of 12 Duplex TGV TGV: see railroad. trainsets and from RATP RATP Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens RATP Reliable Asynchronous Transfer Protocol RATP Reste Assis T'es Payé RATP Rentre Avec Tes Pieds RATP Random Anti Terrorist Program (Regie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) for the supply of 12 additional MI2N trainsets (double-deck interconnecting trainsets), within the framework of the collaboration with Alstom. The 12 Duplex TGV trainsets for SNCF will be delivered between September 2001 and September 2003. Bombardier Transportation will assemble two first class cars and one second class car for each trainset, representing 36 cars in all out of a total of 120, and will also assemble 72 carrying bogies for an overall amount of CDN $65 million (264 million FF). The 12 MI2N trainsets for RATP, each comprising 5 vehicles, will be delivered between February 2001 and February 2002. Bombardier Transportation will build the 36 intermediate power cars for the 12 trainsets. This contract represents a total amount of approximately CDN $49 million (200 millions FF). Germany In Germany, Bombardier Transportation was awarded a contract on the delivery of six Talent diesel-mechanical multiple units (dmus) to the German private operator Eurobahn Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (Eurobahn). The contract is valued at approximately CDN $21 million (25 million DM). The three-car dmus will be manufactured by Bombardier Transportation in Aachen (Germany). They will be delivered between April and May 2000. Bombardier Transportation, a world leader in the manufacturing of passenger rail cars, offers a full range of urban, suburban and intercity vehicles as well as complete rail transit systems worldwide. It also manufactures freight cars and provides operations and maintenance services. Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian corporation active in the fields of aerospace, rail transportation equipment, recreational products, financial services and services related to its products and core businesses. It operates plants in 12 countries in North America, Europe and Asia, and more than 90 percent of its revenues are generated outside Canada. Bombardier's revenues for its fiscal year ended January 31, 1999 totalled CDN $11.5 billion. |
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