Metro rail coach maker Bombardier Transportation on Monday informed that it has won a contract to supply 162 Bombardier Movia metro cars to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (DMRC).

Harsh Dhingra, Chief Country Representative, India, Bombardier Transportation said, "It is an excellent endorsement of our growing relationship with Delhi Metro, who has already awarded us around $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."

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 approximately Rs.15 billion (€ 204 million, $ 228 million), and delivery will begin in the third quarter of 2016 and is expected to end in early 2018.

In its six-car configuration, these new vehicles will accommodate up to 740 more passengers in and once configured into eight-car sets, will carry as many as 2,960 passengers and provide a much needed capacity increase on two of Delhi’s main metro lines, the company informed in a statement.

The high degree of localisation executed in the project at both Savli and Maneja sites of the company. After more than five decades of investing in India, Bombardier Transportation employs around 1,100 people in India, where it operates a railway vehicle manufacturing site and bogie assembly hall at Savli near Vadodara, 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.

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