PARIS — According to Reuters, Canada’s Bombardier Transport said on Wednesday it had won a joint contract with France’s Alstom worth 170 million euros ($176 million) to provide French railway operator SNCF with 25 trains.
Bombardier said in a statement issued in Paris it would receive 34 million euros, while an Alstom spokeswoman said the French heavy engineering group was leading the contract and would take the remaining 136 million.
The consortium will provide state-owned SNCF with 25 two-level automatic electric trains and 11 intermediary vehicles, which will be delivered in March 2006, Bombardier said. Most of the trains would be used for routes in southeast France while six would be used in the northeast. ($1=.9641 Euro)