Azerbaijan Railways CJSC and Stadler Rail Group signed a contract on May 13 in Baku on the purchase of five KISS double-decker trains, Trend reports. Each train consists of four cars. The passenger capacity of each train is 919 people and there are 396 seats in each train, 84 of which are business class seats.
The Azerbaijan Railways Chairman Javid Gurbanov and the Stadler Rail Group CEO Peter Spuhler signed the contract.
Gurbanov said the contract is worth about EUR 60-70 million, which are to be paid to Stadler Rail Group in 20 years with help of the revenues from passenger transportations.
The first two trains will be delivered to Azerbaijan in June 2015, and they will run during the First European Games between the Baku Railway Station and the Koroglu Metro Station, near the Baku Olympic Stadium.
The rest of the trains will be delivered to Azerbaijan by late January 2016. After the completion of the European Games all the five trains are planed to be used on the Baku-Sumgait railway.
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