Business trend:
Marubeni got an
order for 52 railway cars for about 12 billion yen from Venezuela in alliance
with Toshiba and Nippon Sharyo. They will be for the existing lines in the suburbs
of it capital Caracas. Toshiba will be responsible for electric control, and
Nippon Sharyo takes care of cars. All the 52 cars will be shipped from Japan
toward mid-2015.
Marubeni got an
order for the renovation of the 42-km line between Caracas and neighboring
cities in alliance with Italian and Venezuelan companies in 1992 and 2004. Venezuela
National Railway has been considering purchasing new railway cars to mitigate
the congestion. In Venezuela, traffic jam is growing serious with the inflow of
people to such big cities as Caracas. The government is in the middle of the
project to improve a total of 13,000 km railway networks. Traditionally, France
is dominant in the railways business in Venezuela, but Japanese companies successfully
secured an order for the 52 railway cars.
An image of the railway
car to be shipped to Venezuela
Venezuela National
Railways
It’s just great to know that they improved the railway for better traffic and convenient of the traveler. I guess the Japanese cars owners would love to hear this.
ReplyDelete