ALSTOM will overhaul 238 metro cars for Atlanta in an order worth 247 million

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ALSTOM is to overhaul an additional 118 metro cars for the
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), in a
follow-on option worth about €129 million.

MARTA is exercizing the option associated with a contract
awarded December 9, 2002, worth some €118 million, under
which ALSTOM is overhauling 120 cars.

Including this option, the total number of cars ALSTOM is
refurbishing for MARTA comes to 238, bringing the total value of
the contract to about €247 million.

The 118 additional cars, built by ALSTOM between 1979 and
1981, will be refurbished at ALSTOM's facilities in Hornell, New
York. Deliveries are scheduled to begin at the end of 2004, at
the rate of up to eight cars a month.

Michel Moreau, president of ALSTOM’s Transport Sector,
said: 'We are pleased with this new vote of confidence from
MARTA. This decision reinforces ALSTOM's position as a leader in
the United States in refurbishing metro cars. ALSTOM is currently
renovating vehicles for the Washington Metropolitan Transit
Authority, New Jersey Transit and the Maryland Mass Transit
Administration.'

Transporting half a million passengers a day, MARTA is one of
the principal mass-transit operators in North America.

ALSTOM has recently won several major orders in the United
States. Particularly notable are a contract worth €980
million for 660 new metro cars for New York, a contract worth
€137 million for 62 metro cars for Washington and a contract
worth €430 million for the maintenance of 434 freight
locomotives by the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway
Company.

With more than 35 product lines and a presence in over 60
countries, ALSTOM's Transport Sector offers cutting-edge
products and services to four distinct types of customers:
urban transit authorities and operators; intercity passenger
rail operators and rolling stock owners; rail freight
operators; and intercity railway infrastructure owners.
ALSTOM's Transport Sector, with €4.4 billion in sales in
2001, is among the world's leading suppliers to the railway
industry. 

Press information:
Helen Connolly

Tel. +33 (0)1 41 66 91 43

helen.connolly@transport.alstom.com 

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