The concessionaire of Buenos Aires Metro, Emova, awarded Alstom the contract to overhaul its fleet of 10 Metropolis 300 trains (60 metro cars) for the next three years. The contract will guarantee Buenos Aires Metro users a more comfortable travel experience and generate local jobs, since Alstom will carry out the work at the plant located in Los Hornos, in the city of La Plata.
This important contract reinforces Alstom’s commitment to the City of Buenos Aires, and also highlights the technical expertise of the Los Hornos plant and its staff that performs rolling stock maintenance work with high quality standards.
“This contract is the first maintenance agreement for the Alstom Metropolis 300 concluded between Emova and Alstom since 2016, when Alstom sold a fleet of 180 cars (30 trains) to Subterráneos de Buenos Aires (SBASE),” Ernesto Garberoglio, General Manager of Alstom Argentina said.
More than 800,000 users use the Buenos Aires metro daily, thanks to its fast, efficient and safe service. Alstom equips three of the six Metro lines with signaling systems and rolling stock of the Metropolis 100 and Metropolis 300 models manufactured in Brazil.
The Metropolis 300 trains serve Buenos Aires Metro lines D and H.
In 2022, Emova also awarded Alstom the modernisation and maintenance contract for five 5-car metro trains for 19 months with services carried out at Alstom’s facility in Los Hornos, Province of Buenos Aires. Through the overhaul of these metro cars including their subsystems, their performance and useful life are increased by ten years to operate on city’s metro lines A and C.
Since December 2021, Emova has been the concessionaire of the Buenos Aires Metro network. The company is a consortium made up of Benito Roggio Transporte and Metrovías, which allows the operator to combine the expertise and know-how necessary to make metro transport the leading system in urban mobility.
by Paula Gheorghiu
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