Rio de Janeiro will build a train plant to meet demand from the entire Latin America. The news, anticipated by the column ‘Informe do DIA’ on April 2011, was confirmed yesterday by the state Secretary of Transportation Júlio Lopes during the signing of the purchase of another 60 Chinese compositions with air conditioning that will join the SuperVia fleet from July 2014. The concessionaire is negotiating partnerships with international companies to build the plant in Deodoro, in the West Zone.
“Talks are still confidential, but the population will have a nice surprise in no more than 30 days,” said the CEO of SuperVia Carlos Cunha, adding that the plant will occupy the own company’s area, with 220 thousand square meters.
“Our intention is that the first production will be 30 trains we have planned to buy after 2016. We will anticipate its manufacture in Rio,” he said. Júlio Lopes highlighted that investments will be “about hundreds of millions of dollars.”
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In September, the global CEO of Alstom Transport, Henri Poupart-Lafarge, confirmed to Revista Ferroviária that the company made an agreement with the government of the State of Rio de Janeiro to build a second rolling stock plant in Rio, in Deodoro, in addition to that it has in Lapa, in São Paulo. At the time, Poupart-Lafarge said the start of construction would depend on whether Alstom will obtain the order of 30 trains that SuperVia should acquire on its own, after the 60 trains that the State bought from China’s CNR. The unit would be on the premises of the former factory of CCC cars, alongside the SuperVia shops in Deodoro.
At the 60-train contract signing ceremony, at the Guanabara Palace, Chinese businessmen showed optimism. “We are emerging countries, we are partners, and with the same challenges,” said Wang Xusheng, CEO of CMC, one of the three companies of the consortium that built the 60 trains.
Metro: stations closed
Soon after Carnival 2013, the metro station General Osório, in Ipanema, will be closed for ten months for works of Line 4 (Barra-South Zone). The Cantagalo station, in Copacabana, also will be closed, but only for 15 days, for the same reason.
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