Director General of the Swiss company Stadler Rail Group Peter Spuhler hopes for closer cooperation with Belarus, including the launch of the underground rolling stock production. The representative of the Swiss company made this statement at the official opening ceremony of the Stadler Minsk factory in Fanipol, Dzerzhinsk District on 20 November, BelTA has learned.
“We hope to get an order for the production of metro train cars in Belarus,” the head of the company said.
The factory to produce Stadler railway transport was officially commissioned in Belarus on 20 November. Attending the opening ceremony was Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. The plant will produce rolling stock for the CIS broad-gauge railways. The factory will produce up to 120 coaches per year. Investment in the production totaled €50 million. The factory will employ 600 professionals.
Stadler decided to set up its production in Belarus due to the growing demand for broad-gauge trains in the rapidly developing CIS countries. Belarus was chosen as the site for the Swiss factory not by random. The reason is in the country's highly qualified resources, Belarus' neighborhood with the broad-gauge railway countries as well as the Customs Union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan and the forthcoming establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union.
The joint company Stadler Minsk was founded in 2012. So far Stadler has invested €76 million in the Belarusian economy. The first project of the new factory is the manufacture of 21 double-decker trains for the Russian railway operator Aeroexpress to deliver passengers to airports. All future orders for the CIS will be placed with the Stadler Minsk factory, including supplies for the Belarusian Railways.
Written by belta.by
