Bombardier Transportation of Canada was given a contract to supply 340 BOMBARDIER* MOVIA metro cars to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (DMRC), mid last year. The contract is valued at approximately 427 million Euros (US$ 590 million). The delivery of the trains are to begin in the last quarter of 2008 with completion in 2010 to provide effective public transport during the Commonwealth Games that will be held in New Delhi in October 2010.

In the phase II expansion of Delhi Metro, the modern BOMBARDIER MOVIA high-capacity vehicles will transport an impressive 4 million passengers every day, reducing their journey time and alleviating the heavy traffic congestion and pollution caused by more than 1 million cars that commute in New Delhi everyday. The phase II expansion extends the existing network by approximately 60 kilometers covering all major destinations in the East-West and North-South corridors of this remarkable city where almost 16 million people presently live.
André Navarri, President, Bombardier Transportation claims that greatest cities in the world, such as New York, Paris, London, Berlin, and Shanghai, have chosen Bombardier metros to provide modern mobility for their citizens while reducing traffic congestion and helping their cities breathe and was very excited to be able to add the city of New Delhi as a new metro customer. Mr. Navarri also added the company has been an employer in India for over 35 years and hoped that the project would set the standard for other mass transit projects. Bombardier Transportation also intends to set such standards not just in New Delhi, but also in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Chandigarh and throughout India."

Rajeev Jyoti, Managing Director, Bombardier Transportation India, said that the company was proud to be one of the first private companies to have been chosen to build rail vehicles in India. Bombardier manufacturing and engineering sites were present in India, supported by sites in Germany and Sweden and would deliver the new vehicles to Delhi Metro on time and with quality, honouring the trust of the public authorities in India.

The BOMBARDIER MOVIA metro vehicles are configured in four-car sets with capacity for 1,480 passengers. The vehicles integrate the world's most advanced technologies in metro vehicle manufacture, such as stainless steel car bodies and the reliable BOMBARDIER* MITRAC* propulsion and control system featuring IP technology. The MOVIA metros are developed from a standardized platform, which ensures a high degree of reliability, safety and maintainability while providing low life-cycle cost.

This contract envisages a design approach that enables a high degree of localization and easy transfer of technology processes. To ensure successful localization, the car bodies, bogies and propulsion system for the first units will be manufactured by Bombardier sites in Germany and Sweden. Thereafter, the main production will be undertaken by Bombardier in India. The propulsion system for sixty four-car units will be produced by Bombardier's site in Baroda; seventy-seven four-car units will be manufactured by other Bombardier sites in India. Key elements of the complete design will be undertaken at Bombardier's Indian engineering centre, Infotech, in Hyderabad in cooperation with Bombardier's site in Sweden.

Bombardier Transportation in India

Bombardier Transportation has been in existence in India for over 35 years. Till date it has supplied Indian Railways with technologically advanced rail products, such as the WAP5 and WAG9 electric locomotives for passenger and freight applications and the Mumbai Traffic Management System. This system controls the 60-km rail stretch around Mumbai, one of the world's heaviest rail commuter traffics on the Western Railways, with an impressive number of 1,000 trains everyday. Bombardier Transportation is steadily making it way in India through facilities set up in various part of the country. Vadodara in Gujarat (western state of India) is home to its propulsion systems manufacturing facility and software development center for signaling and traction applications in India and for other Bombardier Transportation projects around the globe. The site is ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certified. Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh (eastern state of India), Infotech Enterprises operates one of the most important engineering centers already sourcing key global projects for Bombardier Transportation.

Potential manufacturing and project associations in India

Bombardier is open to an association with Indian Railways under a Public-Private Partnership approach to create a manufacturing facility to produce Bombardier locomotives in India, related to Indian Railways rail freight corridors project. In the Mass Transit sector Bombardier is developing associations with companies in India.