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To the genoese Messina the store clerk for the transport of 36 conveys railway destined to Saudi Arabia
The first train has been boarded in recent days in the port of Barcelona
December 17, 2014
A ship of the shipowning group Italian Ignazio Messina & C. will transport the 36 conveys railway who will leave from the Spanish port of Barcelona for being disembarked to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and that they will be employed for the railway connection to high railway speed between the two sacred cities of the Islam, Medina and the Mecca, that will be activated within December 2016.
Draft of a store clerk gives beyond 6,7 billion euros to a group of Spanish companies with front man the Talgo that will supply in three years the 36 trains to Saudi Arabia. In order to carry out the transport of the trains the genoese company will employ one of its newer ships, the Jolly Quarzo, that container to the world under delivery to the Messina by the Korean yards takes part of the eight new larger ships ro-ro, five of which already in service on the lines beyond Suez.
and is attended in the Saudi port of Jeddah on 22 December. 34 twin trains will follow others, plus 36th a convoy that will be destined exclusively to the service of the Saudi real family: the "Talgo Real" will transport a maximum of 60 passengers against the 417 who will find place on the normal version of Talgo 350 (this the name of the supplied railway model to Saudi Arabia).
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