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Bombardier beat 2 Chinese rivals to win Israeli electric locomotive deal
MONTREAL's Bombardier, has been chosen to supply 62 electric locomotives to Israel for ILS1 billion (US$263 million), state-owned Israel Railways has announced.
Bombardier, which has been supplying trains to Israel for more than a decade, beat out Chinese rivals CNR and CSR as well as France's Alstom, to win the deal, said Israel Railways.
Israel is in the middle of a multi-billion-dollar process to electrify the country's 420-kilometre (260-mile) railway to reduce noise and pollution, Reuters reports.
Israel Railways said it would take delivery of the locomotives in 2017 and that they were mainly for use on a new fast rail line between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It has an option to buy 32 more.
The locomotives each have an output of six megawatts and will be able to pull up to eight double-decker carriages or 12 single carriages, containing 1,400 passengers, at speeds of up to 160 kilometres an hour.
Bombardier, which has been supplying trains to Israel for more than a decade, beat out Chinese rivals CNR and CSR as well as France's Alstom, to win the deal, said Israel Railways.
Israel is in the middle of a multi-billion-dollar process to electrify the country's 420-kilometre (260-mile) railway to reduce noise and pollution, Reuters reports.
Israel Railways said it would take delivery of the locomotives in 2017 and that they were mainly for use on a new fast rail line between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It has an option to buy 32 more.
The locomotives each have an output of six megawatts and will be able to pull up to eight double-decker carriages or 12 single carriages, containing 1,400 passengers, at speeds of up to 160 kilometres an hour.
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