ALSTOM chosen for Sao Paolo suburban line in Brazil

Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM), the
public sector organisation responsible for suburban railway
transport in Sao Paulo State, has just selected the Sistrem
Consortium, led by ALSTOM, to build its new 9 km line from
Capão Redondo to Largo Treze. The overall capital value of
the project is approximately 325 million euros of which
ALSTOM's portion amounts to 49%.

Sistrem is a consortium of companies formed to undertake the
project on a turnkey basis. Within this, ALSTOM is responsible
for the overall technical management of the project, the
systems integration, the provision, from its factories in
Brazil and France, of 8x6 car MetropolisTM train sets, the
signalling system, the operations control centre and various
items of electrical and mechanical equipment for the
stations.

Other members of the Consortium are:

- Siemens (Brazil and Germany), who will provide the high and
medium voltage power supply equipment and auxiliary inverters
for the rolling stock,

- Adtranz (Brazil), who will provide rectifiers and auxiliary
substations, the overhead line and elements of the signalling
system,

- CAF (Spain), who will provide bogies and couplers for the
rolling stock.

The new line is the first phase of a line which is planned
to be extended as far as Chacara Klabin station (Vila Mariana
region) in the future.

Michel Moreau, President of ALSTOM's Transport Sector said
today: 'This project is a major milestone in the expansion of
the railway network for Sao Paulo City and represents a
significant boost to the Brazilian railway industry. ALSTOM
Transport, which has around 1100 employees in Brazil, has
already won a similar contract for the metro in Fortaleza some
20 months ago.'

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