By Sharen Kaur
sharen@nstp.com.my
Published in NST on May 25, 2012
SCOMI Rail Bhd will deliver the first batch of four-car trains for KL Monorail to Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd by year-end.
Its unit, Scomi Transit Projects Sdn Bhd, won a RM494 million contract from Prasarana in November last year to supply 12 sets of four-car Generation 2-type trains for its KL Monorail fleet expansion.
The contract is also to upgrade the existing monorail stations as well as the electrical and mechanical system, and build a new depot.
"Work is on schedule. The trains come with new designs, complete with aluminium body and are lighter. They are being assembled at our plant in Rawang," Scomi Brazil country president Hilmy Zaini Zainal said in an interview with Business Times recently.
Scomi's engineering, technology and innovation plant in Rawang is capable of producing 500 monorail cars a year.
Apart from bigger capacity, the trains are environment-friendly and can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 200 tonnes a day because of their energy efficiency.
Scomi is currently one of two companies in the world providing integrated monorail solutions.
Its major breakthrough in the global monorail space came when it won a RM1.84 billion bid in 2008 for a monorail project in Mumbai, India, with its partner, Larsen & Toubro.
Scomi's share in the Indian venture is worth RM823 million, with projected margins between 10 per cent and 20 per cent.
The Mumbai project has been Scomi's launchpad to compete on an international scale to grab more jobs.
In the last one year, Scomi has won two monorail jobs in Brazil worth a combined RM5.6 billion.
Meanwhile, in a statement issued on Tuesday, Prasarana said the fleet expansion project is proceeding smoothly.
Group director for rail division Khairani Mohamed said two train sets will be in service by end-November and the rest, in the second half of next year.
The expansion project is part of the Government Transformation Programme plan to improve public transportation.
The KL Monorail now uses 12 two-car train sets to service commuters from the KL Sentral in Brickfields to the "Golden Triangle".
The new trains will replace the existing sets, which are running at 35 per cent over-capacity during peak hours. They will increase passengers per car by 50 per cent from 100 to 150 and current ridership of some 65,000 persons by twofold.
Prasarana managing director Datuk Shahril Mokhtar has said the older trains will be kept as spares once the new sets are delivered.
The trains were manufactured locally in 1996.
The KL Monorail services have been in operations since August 31, 2003. The project was completed at a cost of RM1.18 billion.
sharen@nstp.com.my
Published in NST on May 25, 2012
SCOMI Rail Bhd will deliver the first batch of four-car trains for KL Monorail to Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd by year-end.
Its unit, Scomi Transit Projects Sdn Bhd, won a RM494 million contract from Prasarana in November last year to supply 12 sets of four-car Generation 2-type trains for its KL Monorail fleet expansion.
The contract is also to upgrade the existing monorail stations as well as the electrical and mechanical system, and build a new depot.
"Work is on schedule. The trains come with new designs, complete with aluminium body and are lighter. They are being assembled at our plant in Rawang," Scomi Brazil country president Hilmy Zaini Zainal said in an interview with Business Times recently.
Apart from bigger capacity, the trains are environment-friendly and can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 200 tonnes a day because of their energy efficiency.
Scomi is currently one of two companies in the world providing integrated monorail solutions.
Its major breakthrough in the global monorail space came when it won a RM1.84 billion bid in 2008 for a monorail project in Mumbai, India, with its partner, Larsen & Toubro.
Scomi's share in the Indian venture is worth RM823 million, with projected margins between 10 per cent and 20 per cent.
The Mumbai project has been Scomi's launchpad to compete on an international scale to grab more jobs.
In the last one year, Scomi has won two monorail jobs in Brazil worth a combined RM5.6 billion.
Meanwhile, in a statement issued on Tuesday, Prasarana said the fleet expansion project is proceeding smoothly.
Group director for rail division Khairani Mohamed said two train sets will be in service by end-November and the rest, in the second half of next year.
The expansion project is part of the Government Transformation Programme plan to improve public transportation.
The KL Monorail now uses 12 two-car train sets to service commuters from the KL Sentral in Brickfields to the "Golden Triangle".
The new trains will replace the existing sets, which are running at 35 per cent over-capacity during peak hours. They will increase passengers per car by 50 per cent from 100 to 150 and current ridership of some 65,000 persons by twofold.
Prasarana managing director Datuk Shahril Mokhtar has said the older trains will be kept as spares once the new sets are delivered.
The trains were manufactured locally in 1996.
The KL Monorail services have been in operations since August 31, 2003. The project was completed at a cost of RM1.18 billion.
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