India buys subway trains from China

[mDumb]

BEIJING: China is set to dispatch 18 high-tech metro trains to Mumbai's new subway network under a USD 110 million contract and the rails would be ready for operation after their trial run in India's financial hub.

The subway trains rolled off the production line on March 20 and would take a month to ship from Shanghai before their trial is launched in Mumbai in May, said Qian Houkuan, Director of Information and Technology at Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Works which manufactured the rails.

The trains are China's first-ever export of A-type subway rails, which are wider than three metres and have greater passenger capacity than other models, the official Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying today.

The trains, with automatic driving systems and maximum speed of 80 km per hour, could operate in temperatures up to 55 degrees Celsius and 100 per cent humidity, Qin said.

Each of their 3.2-metre compartments could carry 390 people, 72 more than the 3-metre A-type trains used in China, he said.

The subway trains were sold to Mumbai at the cost of USD 110 million.

 

[prithwidw]

The thread title is offensive. Plus there is already a thread pertaining to this topic.

 

[scrumpy]

The thread title is offensive. Plus there is already a thread pertaining to this topic.

Come on man. Stop taking offense to everything. Get a thicker skin. The title is supposed to be humorous.

 

[Choppers]

Mumbai Metro Trains are Made in China since Reliance had contracted them.But Delhi and other metro trains will be made in India.

Gujrat factory of Bombardier has already started its delivery of Metro coaches made in india. Meanwhile BEML is already manufacturing for Rotem coaches in India.

 

[mDumb]

But Bombardier is a Canadian company. Its shares (BBD) are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Thanks for the tips there. I am thinking of buying some of their shares.

Who knows when I make money from BBD I can invade the whole India by a single army of me.

 

[Materialistic]

sounds good and looks good, going good.
its a vital ingredient for infrastructure developments.

 

[EjazR]

It would be good if there is ToT and local manufacturing involved as part of the contract. Any info on this?

 

[Hutchroy]

But Bombardier is a Canadian company. Its shares (BBD) are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Thanks for the tips there. I am thinking of buying some of their shares.

Who knows when I make money from BBD I can invade the whole India by a single army of me.

Yes, Bombardier are also making Railway Rolling Stock i.e. Locomotives, Coaches etc. in China, as follows :

BOMBARDIER IN CHINA​

Bombardier Transportation is a leading provider of rail equipment, systems and services to China, and is actively supporting the country’s development of urban mass transit and intercity rail systems. Presence in China includes three manufacturing joint ventures and three Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises, along with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Bombardier and its joint-venture partners employ more than 2,500 people in China.

Bombardier’s joint ventures serve three sectors of the Chinese rail equipment market. Bombardier-Sifang-Power (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd., established in 1998, manufactures passenger rail cars and rolling stock. Changchun Bombardier Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd. (CBRC), established in 1996, is mainly engaged in the production of metro vehicles. Bombardier CPC Propulsion System Co. Ltd. (BCP) is dedicated to the production, marketing, and maintenance of propulsion equipment.

Your moniker does say a lot about you!

 

[Hutchroy]

It would be good if there is ToT and local manufacturing involved as part of the contract. Any info on this?

India may become sourcing centre for Bombardier

Despite losing the crucial World Bank funded Rs 930-crore Mumbai Urban Transport Project contract to competitor Siemens, Bombardier Transportation India (BTI), the subsidiary of Bombardier Inc., Canada, is still bullish about its India operations. "This isolated order doesn't make a difference and we have not changed our views. We will continue to pursue railway projects in India," Rajeev Jyoti, President & Managing Director, BTI, told Projectmonitor emphatically. "Bombardier is strongly committed to the Indian market." In fact, Bombardier is examining the possibility of making India an engineering centre for its global projects as well as for low-cost sourcing.

Please also read :

Bombardier’s railway production unit in India goes on stream

 

[mDumb]

<Your moniker does say a lot about you!> And you think you're not dumb?

There are many foreign companies that joint ventures with Chinese companies. There is nothing new. For examples, train, car, airplane, nuclear plant, helicopter. This does not mean China is incapable to produce them themselves.

A German company joint a Chinese company to build maglev trains. And currently, China is the only country that uses maglev technology extensively on its railway system. This maglev technology enables the train to go 270 MPH.

Also, I think Chinese electric train is the fastest in the world (220 MPH). I remember Japan used to boast its bullet train.

 

[Justin Joseph]

The thread title is offensive. Plus there is already a thread pertaining to this topic.

1. Nothing offensive, look from different angle we are providing employment to chinese, they are working for us.

2. USA even buys artificial Christmas tree from china does it belittle them.

3. We are buying because it is cheaper there in china.


I will give u another example TATA and Ashok Leyland are Indian automobile companies having experience in manufacturing very good qualities of buses.

Still we are looking for other suppliers outside India, including china because govt. has sanction 14,695 buses and as we need that huge quantity and our domestic manufacturers are having order book over flowing we have to import.

It is not bad but make business seance.

It is typical to communist and chinese they even boast of exporting baby diapers. Its silly, every shallow and new achiever boast.

Have u seen USA, Japan or Germany boasting like this.

 

[Justin Joseph]

India may become sourcing centre for Bombardier



Please also read :

Bombardier&#8217;s railway production unit in India goes on stream

It is a small order US$ 100 million we have given to china as our demand is expanding very rapidly.

You can get a Idea from Delhi Metro where they have ordered USD 900 millions, for 81 trains sets in a single order.

This is from single city only imagine what we require for all over India.


In all, the manufacturing unit belonging to Bombardier Transportation, will supply a total of 81 train sets comprising 424 broad gauge coaches to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) by October 2010 at a cost of about Rs 3,000 crore. &#8216;&#8216;This is a very proud day for DMRC. Only 24 months ago, in June 2007, we placed an order for 454 coaches with M/s Bombardier Transportation, with a stipulation that it can bring a maximum of 21 train sets from abroad. The company limited their imports to just nine train sets and set up a facility in Gujarat to manufacture the rest. I am very happy that we have achieved indigenousness so soon,&#8217;&#8217; said E Sreedharan, DMRC managing director.

Rs 860 crore rail coach factory to be set up in West Bengal

PTI, Mar 21, 2010, 06.56pm IST

KANCHRAPARA(WB): Railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday laid the foundation stone for a Rs 860-crore state-of-the-art EMU and Metro rail coach manufacturing unit here, promising it will be one of the best in the world.

"This will not only be the best in India, but it will also be one of the best coach factories in the world," Banerjee told a packed audience at the foundation-stone-laying ceremony at the Kanchrapara railway stadium in Nadia district.

Describing the project as the biggest in the state after the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works set up in 1947, she said the project would be executed in the Public-Private Partnership model and the 153 acres of land required for it was already in the possession of the Railways.

According to Railway sources, prospective bidders are being given two months' time from March 31 this year to submit proposals for participation as a joint venture partner. Once operational, the factory will supply 500 EMU and metro coaches over a period of 10 years, they said.

The Railways now have coach manufacturing units at Perambur and Kapurthala.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...set-up-in-West-Bengal/articleshow/5708875.cms

 

[Justin Joseph]

India: BEML eyeing INR 25000 crore biz from metro rail projects.

Bangalore, Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), maker of metro rail coaches and mining equipment, smells a huge business opportunity of Rs 25,000 crore in the metro rail projects that are coming up across the country, according to its Chairman & Managing Director, Mr V.R.S. Natarajan.

Over a dozen cities could be floating metro rail projects in the next decade. “We hope to capture at least one-fourth of the Rs 1-lakh crore business in metro projects,” he said on the sidelines of an annual news conference here on Thursday.

BEML supplies coaches worth Rs 1,400 crore for the Delhi metro project and has won the Rs 1,672-crore Bangalore contract. Its sights are on Chennai, Pune and Hyderabad.

Outlook

For the current fiscal, BEML is looking at a turnover of Rs 4,000 crore compared with Rs 2,797 crore for fiscal 2009, driven by all the three divisions – rail, mining and defence. Order book stands at over Rs 5,000 crore.

The company plans to invest Rs 410 crore in existing facilities, including Rs 260 crore at the new Palakkad unit in Kerala, this fiscal, Mr Natarajan said. Last fiscal, it spent Rs 100 crore. “We expect the first product to roll out from Palakkad by March 2010,” he said.

The global meltdown did not affect the company except in procuring small supplies from minor equipment makers. The company grew 11 per cent on an average year-on-year.


BEML has rail facilities at Bangalore, KGF and Palakkad. These would also make coaches for low-speed, medium-speed and high-speed trains and city-airport link expresses that run at 200-250 kph.

Alstom pact

“We have signed an MoA (memorandum of agreement) with Alstom of France [for technology] to make light rail, medium and high-speed rail coaches. Alstom will exclusively source components and bogies made by BEML using this technology for its global uses. It is looking at India as a low-cost manufacturing base,” he said.

BEML has another technology pact with South Korea’s Rotem for the metro coaches.

BEML plans to supply 90-100-tonne stainless-steel wagons for the high-speed freight corridors proposed on Mumbai-Delhi and Howrah-Ghaziabad sectors. It has signed an MoU with SAIL for sourcing steel for the wagons, Mr Natarajan said.

The Hindu Business Line : BEML eyeing Rs 25,000-cr biz from metro rail projects

 

[jha]

when is metro reaching my village....??

 

[BJlaowai]

Good thing India is buying metro rail coaches from China
China has developed vast infrasturcture for development of subway system in all their cities. Even small cities in China have world class metro rail systems.
Bilateral trade between India and China is worth more than 50Billion USD. If India can buy power plants and telecom infrasturcture from China, why not transportation equipment.
China is investing 100's of billions of dollars on developing High-speed rail network all across the country. India can learn from Chinas experience.