Alstom, EMA (Entreprise Métro d’Alger), Ferrovial and SNTF (Société Nationale des Transports Ferroviaires) have signed a frame agreement to extend the activities of the joint venture Cital to include the assembly and maintenance of regional and intercity trains, in addition to its current focus on Citadis trams. The new agreement also includes SNTF’s entry into the Cital joint venture as a shareholder.
The Cital site in Annaba, currently dedicated to the assembly and maintenance of Citadis trams, will be extended from the current 46,000 m2 to 190,000 m2. It will house an engineering department, new production lines, and a maintenance depot. It will have the capacity to produce one Coradia train per month.
The new activity will progressively create up to around 270 direct jobs at the Annaba site, currently employing more than 240, and several hundred indirect ones. Alstom will provide training and will transfer skills, know-how and technology to Cital’s employees for the production and maintenance of the new trains.
SNTF intends to order 98 Coradia trains from Cital, based on Alstom’s Coradia Polyvalent in its bimodal version. The acquisition is part of the operator’s plan to extend its rail network from 3,000 km to 12,500 km by 2025, own a larger fleet able to circulate on various types of lines, and offer an enhanced quality of service to its passengers.
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