Alstom will manufacture in their industrial site in Santa Perpetua 57 cars to equip the first line of the Panama metro

This contract is in addition to the one signed recently with Metro Santo Domingo 

The material, the same used to equip Line 9 of Metro Barcelona, continues being exported successfully

SMP, Secretaría del Metro de Panama, has awarded a contract to the Consorcio Linea 1 to build the first line of the Panama Metro. This consortium consist of a Brazilian civil works company Odebrecht (55%) and the Spanish FCC (45%). As a subcontractor of this consortium, Alstom is the leader of electromechanical group and will be in charge of the engineering, integration and commissioning of the electromechanical works on a turnkey basis. Alstom will also supply 57 metro cars, traction substations and the CBTC train control system. Alstoms share of the contract is worth around 200 million.

The units will be designed and manufactured in Alstom´s industrial site of Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, Barcelona. This contract is in addition to the one signed last December with Metro Santo Domingo for the supply of 45 cars for the citys second metro line. These two consecutive contracts clearly demonstrate the foreign markets confidence in Alstom.

The trains are based on Alstom´s Metropolis platform and will be very similar to the trains used on Line 9 of Metro Barcelona. Each of the 14 metro trains are composed of four cars, three of which are motorised. The two end cars are equipped with a drivers cabin, the same as those for Metro Santo Domingo, but differently to the Metropolis on Line 9 in Barcelona, which use an automated driverless system.

The train control system chosen for this project is Alstom´s state of the art Urbalis CBTC solution. This modern radio based system is now implemented worldwide for high capacity and driverless metros in Singapore, Beijing, Lausanne and Shanghai. In the Americas, the leading metros of Sao Paulo, Santiago de Chile, Mexico and Toronto have also chosen the Urbalis solution.

With 1.7 million people, Panama City is the most modern and business focused city of the region. The Panama Canal brought economic growth and the city is the headquarter of a large financial community. Transport problems in Panama City will now be alleviated by the construction of the first line of the metro. This line will be 13.7 km long, of which 7.2 km will be underground and 6.5 km on viaduct. The line will have 13 stations and will run from Los Andes at the north of the city, through the historical downtown (Plaza 5 de Mayo), the financial centre (Vía España), and will end at the Albrook neighbourhood, where the maintenance and workshop center will be located. The works are expected to be completed by the end of 2013.

About Alstom Transport
A promoter of sustainable mobility, Alstom is the only manufacturer in the world to offer a complete range of high performance products: rolling stock, infrastructures, information systems, services and turnkey solutions. Mindful of operators´ ever more stringent profitability objectives and of their growing need for sustainable mobility solutions, we propose ecologically and economically efficient products and services to our customers. Alstom transport recorded sales of 5.8 billion euros in the fiscal year 2009-2010. Alstom Transport is present in 60 countries and employs some 26,000 people.

About Alstom in Spain
Alstom executes all types of projects in the energy generation and transmission and railway transport sectors, from the design, engineering, manufacturing to the maintenance. With a presence in Spain since 1989, Alstom generated in the fiscal year 2009-2010 sales totalling more than 1.2 billion euros and employs close to 4,000 employees. Alstom has a permanent industrial presence in 14 out of 17 autonomous regions in Spain, amongst others Andalusia, Castile and Leon, Catalonia, Galicia, Madrid, Navarre and the Basque Country.

Press contacts
Andrés López-Morancho, Alstom Spain
Tel.: +34 91 334 58 00 / +34 609 069 230
andres.lopez-morancho@crn.alstom.com

Germán Ruiz Gómez, Alstom Transport
Tel.: +34 91 334 5800 / + 34 639 05 00 71
german.ruiz-gomez@transport.alstom.com

Website: www.alstom.com/transport

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