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In the capital of Ukraine “Electron” Corporation won trams delivery tender
14.07.2015
«Electrontrans» Joint Ukrainian-German venture, which
is a part of "Electron” Corporation, won an important tender in delivery of seven
"Electron” trams for Kyyiv.
The customer of new trams for the capital is
"Kyyivpastrans” municipal enterprise. Information of tender commission about
acceptance of Lviv machine builders` proposal is placed in "Bulletin of state
purchases". The cost of accepted tender is 183 mill 750 thou grn.
After signing the contract "Electron” Corporation will manufacture five-section T5B64 trams of 30-m length for 1524 – mm gauge. These are one-space 100% low-floor trams of big passenger capacity, each of them is intended for 287 passengers. The trams are equipped with ventilation, heating and air conditioning systems, are adapted to the passengers with disabilities and other low mobile groups of inhabitants. One more important feature of "Electron” trams - they are manufactured of anticorrosive and fireproof materials.
Commentary of
the president of "Electron” Corporation Yuriy Bubes:
Сertainly,we are, satisfied with acceptance of our
proposal by "Kyyivpastrans” tender
commission. Now we are getting ready for signing the contract and when according to the applicable
legislation all judicial actions are carried out, we shall start to fulfill the
important order for us.
"Electron” trams
- these are modern Ukrainian cars successfully used in Lviv and the comfort of which satisfies both Lviv inhabitants and
guests of the town from the whole
We are grateful to Lviv mayor Andrey Sadovyy for his
comprehensive support of us as a domestic producer, for his stand in principal,
that Lviv is a European town and it is worth of
public transport of European quality. Today the capital of our country
will have such transport too. We are
also ready to deliver our trams to a foreign market. European Union gave
us preferences - we
can supply our trams without import duty by the end of 2015. Our "Electron” tram meets all European
demands, but cannot be supplied to the countries of EU because of the process
of implementation of our legislation to the European standards. Now with the assistance of Lviv regional
state administration and, personally, of
its chairman Oleg Synyutka we succeeded to take part in discussions with core ministries. As a result, we got encouragement from Ministry of
infrastructure and its minister Mr. Andrey Pyvovars`kyy – together we are
working at unification of domestic
standards with European ones. Just like we work with Ministry of economical
development and trade of
Сommittees of Verkhovna Rada of
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