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The 378 monorail cars for S o Paulo Metro Line 15 are being produced at the recently inaugurated Bombardier monorail vehicle manufacturing facility in Hortol ndia, S o Paulo. The new plant represents an investment of $15 million US and is Bombardier s global production centre for monorails, serving the fast-growing market in Brazil as well as export opportunities in Latin America tour de georgia photos brasstown bald and around the world. It generates 250 new jobs directly dedicated to railway vehicle production and 500 additional indirect jobs among Bombardier s local supplier base.
Brazil is currently investing in developing its rail system. According tour de georgia photos brasstown bald to a study by Roland Berger for the European rail industry association, UNIFE, the railway industry market in Brazil and Latin America is forecast to grow 7 per cent each year from 2015 to 2017. In five years, the rolling stock market in Latin America is expected to be worth 3.3 billion euro per year, with the Brazilian market alone worth more than 2.2 billion euro. The country has extensive plans to improve its urban transportation infrastructure, with demand for monorails and light rail vehicles high in many cities in addition to metro and commuter trains. Brazil also plans to double its freight rail network tour de georgia photos brasstown bald to solve current logistics issues and introduce tour de georgia photos brasstown bald high speed rail to ease intercity travel.
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Leading innovation in the global railway industry is one of our missions at Bombardier, said Andr Guyvarch. We envision a future of interconnected mobility with rail as the backbone of Brazil s national transportation infrastructure. The superior products we show here are solutions that can ease Brazil s economic development bottlenecks, increase capacity and modernise existing mass transit systems. They reduce travel times between major cities and improve the efficiency of freight transportation.
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Bombardier Transportation, a global leader in rail technology, offers the broadest portfolio in the rail industry and delivers innovative products and services that set new standards in sustainable mobility. The company is strongly investing in Brazil, and is already one of the major companies in the national railway industry, where it leads the railway vehicle modernisation market sector. Bombardier s main offices and two fleet maintenance depots are located in S o Paulo, and it operates a railway tour de georgia photos brasstown bald vehicle refurbishment engineering centre in Hortol ndia, Campinas. Its investment plan, initiated in 2009, aims to triple the number of local employees, reaching 600 people in 2012, and to quadruple its industrial tour de georgia photos brasstown bald area in Hortol ndia. In addition to the existing vehicle refurbishment capacity, Hortol tour de georgia photos brasstown bald ndia is also home to Bombardier s new railway vehicle manufacturing tour de georgia photos brasstown bald site in Brazil.
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