New Wagons Coming to Izmir Subway (Photo Gallery)

New Wagons Are Coming to İzmir Metro: İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, which has been awarded the tender for the purchase of 85 wagon to strengthen the Metro system, is preparing to receive the new 10 wagon, which it has previously ordered, in the coming weeks. The municipality, which has taken action to further develop the metro system with increasing number of lines and passengers, has tendered for the purchase of a total of 85 wagons (17 train set, 5 wagons), which it plans to add to its fleet. Within the scope of the tender, which was open to national and international investors, two firms submitted bids. China CNR Corporation Ltd. 71 million 400 thousand 375 euro, CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co.Ltd. 118 million 544 thousand 275 euro offer while Hyundai Rotem company gave a letter of thanks. After the technical examination of the commission will be finalized the tender. After the signing of the contract, all trains will be delivered to 26 per month.
On the other hand metropolitan municipality previously ordered for the subway system, the factory in China completed the construction of two train sets consisting of 10 wagons set out. 10, which is expected to arrive in Izmir Port in the coming days, will reach 85 by doubling the total number of wagons in the fleet with the new wagon and train sets with 172 wagons. There are still 350 thousand passengers per day in İzmir Metro and 280 thousand passengers in İZBAN. This figure corresponds to 34 of the percentage of public transport passengers.