CAF secures contracts for metro rolling stock in Latin America
Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) has secured contracts to deliver metro rolling stock for the Medellin Metro in Colombia and the Santiago Metro in Chile, with the deals totalling over €200m ($211m).
Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) has secured contracts to deliver metro rolling stock for the Medellin Metro in Colombia and the Santiago Metro in Chile, with the deals totalling over €200m ($211m).
Operating company Metro de Medellin has tasked CAF with designing and supplying 13 new metro trains.
These trains will be assembled and tested at the Metro facilities in compliance with Colombian tender requirements. This order will cater to the anticipated passenger demand increase on Lines A and B.
CAF delivered 38 trains to Metro de Medellin between 2009 and 2018 and recently refurbished 42 units from the original MAN fleet.
Medellin is Colombia’s second-most densely populated city with over 2.5 million inhabitants.
Launched in 1995, the Medellin Metro is Colombia’s sole metro network serving over one million passengers daily.