BOSTON, October 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Massachusetts Department of Transportation today officially get the approval from the Board to purchase 284 rapid transit vehicles from China CNR Corporation Limited ("China CNR") to provide service for Boston metro's red and orange lines. Specifically, these rapid transit vehicles include 152 orange line vehicles and 132 red line vehicles, mainly for the replacement of the old vehicles already in service in the past 30-40 years.
Following the successful expansion to the markets such as Southeast Asia, South America, Oceania, Europe and Africa by CNR, China rolling stock is first leave a footprint in the USA.
This batch of rapid transit vehicles are tailor-made and followed Boston metro's operation conditions and conform to American standards and be the perfect example of energy conservation and environmental protection with modern techniques. More than 60% of the vehicle raw materials are from the USA. Apart from the 12 prototypes were manufactured in China, all the rest of vehicles were assembled in the Massachusetts.
The data released by SCI Verkehr, a famous rail transit consulting agency in Germany, indicate that China CNR ranks the first place in the world in terms of sales from new rolling stock in 2011, 2012 and 2013. For the past five years, China CNR's high-speed MUs (with a speed of over 300km/hour), electric locomotives, rapid transit vehicles and railway freight wagons achieved the highest sales across the world, and accounted for 29.7%, 28%, 22.4% and 12% of the global market separately.
China CNR enjoys the prominent R&D and manufacturing capability of rolling stock industry. In the complete portfolio of high-speed MUs, China CNR offers the high-speed MUs with maximum operating speed ranging from 160km/h to 380km/h, develops the high-speed MUs with the world's highest experimental speed of 487.3km/h and creates the alpine MUs with the world's highest operating speed. In the business segment of railway locomotives, China CNR develops the most powerful electric locomotives and diesel locomotives with the highest tractive power, and offers the high-land locomotives that can operate along Qinghai-Tibet Railway on "the Roof of the World". For the railway freight wagons, China CNR develops the world's lightest dead weight freight wagons with the largest axle load and highest carrying load, and these freight wagons have been put into operation in Australia. Besides, China CNR is a rolling stock market leader. Currently, China CNR is the sole rolling stock manufacturer with a whole range of car bodies, materials and traction methods in the world, and its products for Hong Kong Metro, Saudi Arabia Mecca's Pilgrimage Metro and Brazil's Rio de Janeiro Metro received the clients' positive comments, the sound word-of-mouth effects and the remarkable business achievements. The company's products for Hong Kong Metro and Brazil Rio de Janeiro Metro, which are designed and manufactured according to the European and American standards, have reap the clients' high recognition and continuous orders.
With the powerful supply capacity, China CNR can guarantee the delivery of ordered products within the term of contract and even address the clients' rigorous delivery requirements. For instance, China CNR shortened the delivery period from 18 months to 14 months to ensure the timely delivery of EMUs, which served the 2014 World Cup in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro Metro, thus guaranteeing the sufficient transportation condition for the 2014 Brazil World Cup.
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