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Mercitalia Rail and TX Logistik will acquire until 125 new locomotori constituents
Store clerk to the Bombardier. The investment will pile to about 400 million euros
November 13, 2017
In the next few years Mercitalia Rail and TX Logistik, society that takes part of Polo Mercitalia, will acquire until 125 new locomotori produced constituents TRAXX of last generation from the Bombardier Canadian that will come destined to the transport goods in Italy and Europe.
Specifying that the operation, that will involve a total investment about 400 million euros, is realized to the term of I confront competitive which lasted a lot locked about eight months that has involved the main international constructors of the field, Mercitalia Rail has explained that the new locomotives technologically will be advanced between those available ones on the European market and will allow to renew in next the three years beyond a third party of the fleet of property of Polo Mercitalia, so that the societies of the locomotori Pole will arrange of a park constituents with a medium age between more lowlands in Europe.
The deliveries of the new locomotori constituents will beginning from happen the autumn of 2018. Moreover Bombardier will abroad take care of the maintenance in Italy and of the locomotori for a period eight-year-old.
"This operation - it has specified the managing director of Mercitalia Logistics, Marco Gosso - represents a dowel a lot important of the industrial plan 2017-2026 that 1,5 billion euros of investments preview for Polo Mercitalia. We are online - it has added - with planned how much for I throw again of the field goods of the group FS Italian, is for the results that we are obtaining is for the investments. Our objective is to use these new locomotori in order to upgrade and to improve the services goods in Italy, on the transalpine corridors and in the main European Countries. In this way Polo Mercitalia will print an ulterior acceleration to the delicate process of guideline and attention to the recently started customer".
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