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Riga to buy 125 trolley-buses for EUR 131.8 mln
BC, Riga, 25.06.2013.
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Print versionRiga municipal public transport company Rigas satiksme has concluded a procurement procedure to buy 125 new trolley-buses, declaring Skoda Electric the winner of the tender; the total amount of the contract to be signed with the Czech company is EUR 131.8 million (approximately LVL 92.63 million), as the company's press secretary Viktors Zakis told LETA.
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Rigas satiksme will pay the contract amount to the manufacturer in regular installments over a period of eight years once the trolley-buses are shipped to Riga.
Under the contract, Rigas satiksme will be supplied 125 eighteen-meter trolley-buses in five years.
At the moment, Rigas satiksme operates nineteen trolley-bus routes, which are used by more than 45 million passengers annually. The company has a total of 267 trolley-buses, of which 95 are eighteen meters long and 172 twelve meters long. 76 trolley-buses were manufactured in 2009, 62 in 2008, 29 in 2007 and 33 in 2005. The other trolley-buses more than ten years old.
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