ALSTOM to supply CITADIS trams for urban network of
Mulhouse Tramtrain Project

SITRAM, the transport authority of the metropolitan area of
the French city of Mulhouse, has chosen ALSTOM to supply 20
CITADIS tramways worth about 48 million. This contract
includes an option for an additional seven tramways, which will
bring the total contract amount to 64 million if
exercised.

Those CITADIS tramways, which have a full low floor and are
2.65 meters wide, can carry 230 passengers.

The tramways will run on the urban TramTrain network
currently under construction. This network, with a total length
of 19.7 kilometres, comprises two urban tramway lines
interconnecting in central Mulhouse. The urban network will be
complemented by a 37-kilometre extra-urban line that will use
existing track and connect Mulhouse with the Thur Valley.

ALSTOM will build the tramways at its site in Aytré,
near La Rochelle. Delivery should begin in the first quarter of
2005, and commercial service is scheduled to start on 12
kilometres of the network in the fall of 2005.

'I am very happy that SITRAM has placed its confidence in
ALSTOM for the first phase of this urban-transport project,
which allows us to establish a collaborative relationship that
we hope will be long and productive,' said Didier Genty, the
Vice-President of ALSTOM's Transport sector in France.

The CITADIS family of tramways offers flexible, modular
solutions for rapidly growing cities. The CITADIS concept
combines standardisation of components with customisation of
interior and exterior design in order to meet the individual
requirements of each city in terms of aesthetics, comfort and
accessibility.

ALSTOM tramways have been sold in more than 25 cities around
the world. Among others, Paris, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Dublin
and Melbourne have chosen CITADIS. Among the 440 CITADIS
tramways already sold, the 140 already in service have carried
more than 150 million passengers and have travelled more than
10 million kilometres.

ALSTOM is the global specialist in energy and transport
infrastructure. The Company serves the energy market through
its activities in the fields of power generation and power
transmission and distribution, and the transport market
through its activities in rail and marine. In fiscal year
2001/02, ALSTOM had annual sales in excess of 23
billion and employed 112,000 people in over 70 countries.
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exchanges.

ALSTOM's Transport Sector, with annual sales of 4.4
billion, is an internationally leading supplier of rolling
stock, information systems, services and complete turnkey
systems to the rail industry.

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