{"id":3755,"date":"2019-11-26T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2019-12-02T07:51:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:51:32","slug":"from-china-to-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/from-china-to-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"From China to S\u00e3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The S\u00e3o Paulo Metropolitan Railway Company CPTM, a company linked to the Secretariat of Metropolitan Transport of the State of S\u00e3o Paulo (STM), is continuing with its project to expand the city\u2019s Line 13, known as Jade, a 12.2-kilometre route that will connect the city centre with Guarulhos International Airport and is expected to carry 130,000 passengers every weekday. The Chinese-Brazilian consortium Temoinsa-Sifang is manufacturing eight new trains for this line which are specially designed with extra space for transporting the luggage of future users. The manufacture in China and the delivery and assembly of the trains is being carried out under the supervision of the CS8T Spanish-Brazilian consortium made up of Ineco, Ineco do Brasil, EBEI and MetroEng.<\/p>\n

The rolling stock, which is being manufactured at CRRC Sifang\u2019s facilities, was purchased by the State Government of S\u00e3o Paulo in September 2017 for 316.7 million reales with 85 million euros of financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB). With each train equipped with eight carriages, this fleet will provide shuttle services between S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s International Airport, the largest in Latin America, and the city of S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

In January 2019, a team of Ineco technicians travelled to the facilities of CRRC Sifang \u2013a public railway manufacturer based in Qingdao, China\u2013 to oversee the delivery of the first train in the 2500 series. The rolling stock is very much in line with the latest acquisitions of STM\/CPTM, which feature distributed traction and steel boxes, and complementing the recent deliveries of 30 Hyundai trains and 35 trains from the Spanish company CAF, both also financed by the EIB. This will give CPTM a more modern and versatile fleet, which will be put into service over the next two years. After disembarking at the Port of Santos, the new rolling stock is transported by road to CPTM\u2019s facilities for dynamic track testing.<\/p>\n