A consortium comprising Bombardier Transportation and Alstom has signed a contract to supply another 153 metro cars (as 17 nine-car trains) to Société de Transport de Montréal (STM).
The value of this new order is about 299 million euros, of which Bombardier’s share is some 188 million euros. It follows a first-phase contract signed in October 2010.
Most of the manufacturing and all the final assembly of these additional vehicles will be undertaken at Bombardier’s facility in La Pocatière, in the Bas St-Laurent region of Québec.
As with the first phase, Alstom’s facility will supply the bogies and the motors, as well as the train control, communication, passenger information and video surveillance systems.
Nearly 170 Bombardier employees will work on this new order, along with 70 employees at the Alstom plant in Sorel-Tracy.
With 60% Canadian content, the order will also involve several hundred suppliers across Québec.
Benoit Brossoit, Bombardier’s president for the Americas region (
www.bombardier.com), said: “We are delighted by this announcement, which will maintain hundreds of jobs at our plant in La Pocatière, as well as at our North American headquarters in St Bruno.
"This helps to sustain our leadership in the Québec rail ecosystem and to continue our near 45-year relationship with STM.”
Angelo Guercioni, general manager of Alstom Canada (
www.alstom.com), said: “As part of Alstom’s global centre of excellence for manufacturing railway bogies, our Sorel-Tracy employees are among the most qualified employees in the province, and maintaining their workload is a priority for us. We are happy to add another project to their current order book.”