CAF Spain awarded $219.5m Contract in Saudi Arabia

CAF Spain awarded $219.5m Contract in Saudi Arabia

The CAF Group, Spain announced in a statement that it has concluded a contract with the state-owned railway operator SAR (Saudi Arabia Railways) that covers the maintenance of the Saudi operator’s train fleet, including technical support and other related services.

The contract amounts to close to €200 million (USD 219.5 million).

Firstly, the agreement includes performing maintenance work in partnership with the Saudi operator, on the trains CAF has supplied in the country over recent years, for a term of five years. These are the units currently running on the North-South line, which connects the capital city of Riyadh to Qurayyat on the Jordanian border, as well as those units running on the East-West line, which connects Riyadh to Dammam: a railway network extending for more than 1,700 km which, in addition to the aforementioned cities, connects other important areas of the country such as Hail, Al-Qassim and Al-Hofuf.

Furthermore, an agreement has been reached to establish a joint engineering department, known as the “Engineering Excellence Centre”, whose purpose will be to train SAR staff to provide them with the necessary operating skills to carry out maintenance work on the units, as well as to adapt the Saudi company’s facilities for the overhaul