Bombardier Awarded 63 Million Euro Rail Maintenance Contract in South Florida
BERLIN, GERMANY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 30, 2007 -- Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has been awarded a seven-year contract valued at 63 million euros ($84 million US) by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA) to provide maintenance services for SFRTA's fleet of commuter rail vehicles. The agreement includes one option for a three-year extension. Should that option be exercised, the contract value could reach up to 91 million euros ($122 million US).

Bombardier's mandate under the agreement is to design and implement a comprehensive life-cycle maintenance program for SFRTA's commuter rail fleet, which includes locomotives, self-propelled passenger rail vehicles and Bombardier BiLevel passenger coaches. Specific responsibilities include preventive and corrective maintenance, scheduled vehicle and component overhauls, materials provisioning and handling, and implementation of a new Maintenance Management Information System.

SFRTA's Tri-Rail commuter service operates along a 72-mile corridor from Miami to West Palm Beach on the east coast of southern Florida. The Tri-Rail service currently runs 40 trains per day with expectations for additional trains later this year. Formal transition of the maintenance operation to Bombardier is scheduled for July 1, 2007.

"We are very pleased that another transit authority has selected Bombardier to keep its rail assets in top working condition," said Mike Hardt, Vice President for Bombardier Transportation's rail services business in North America. "Our focus is to continue growing Bombardier's business presence in the North American rail services market, and this contract indicates that we are moving in the right direction."

Bombardier is the world's leading supplier of rail services, maintaining more than 8,000 vehicles internationally. Bombardier's services portfolio supports the entire life cycle of passenger rail vehicles and equipment, including fleet operations and maintenance, vehicle and component overhaul services, and materials solutions.

In North America, Bombardier maintains commuter rail fleets in Los Angeles, San Diego, Toronto and Ottawa. It is involved in combined fleet operations and maintenance contracts for rail systems in Boston and southern New Jersey. Bombardier also provides a range of operations and maintenance services for fully automated transit systems and people movers in 12 U.S. cities.


Bombardier Wins 37 Million Euro Order for Electrical Multiple Units in France


BERLIN, GERMANY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 30, 2007 -- The consortium comprising Bombardier Transportation and Alstom Transport has received a firm order from the French National Railways (SNCF) for 16 TER 2N NG (SNCF Trains Express Regionaux 2 Niveaux Nouvelle Generation) electrical multiple unit trainsets for the region Haute Normandie. As each trainset is composed of 5 car-units, the order covers a total of 80 car-units. Bombardier will build 32 of these car-units, as well as all of the 80 power bogies. This entire order is valued at 170 million euros ($ 227 million US), of which Bombardier Transportation's share is about 37 million euros ($ 50 million US). Deliveries are scheduled to begin by the end of 2008 and will take place until 2010.

This contract comes as an option to a contract signed in September 2000 and brings the total SNCF order to 219 TER 2N NG trainsets as part of the modernization program of their regional express train fleet. The TER 2N NG, built at the Bombardier Transportation Crespin site in the North of France, is a double deck electrical regional express train which can run at a maximum speed of 160km/h.