Ansaldo STS Australia
Ansaldo STS Australia Pty Ltd
11 Viola Place, Eagle Farm, Brisbane QLD 4009 - Australia
Press Office
Phone +61 7 3868 9333 - Fax +61 7 3268 2136
A Finmeccanica Company
Ansaldo STS is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. It is a leading technology company operating in the global Railway & Mass Transit Transportation business with the provision of traffic management,
planning, train control and signalling systems and services. It acts as lead contractor and turnkey provider on major projects worldwide. Ansaldo STS is headquartered in Genoa, Italy and employs over
4,200 people in 28 countries. In 2008, its revenues reached
1.106 M, with a gross operating margin of
118 M and net profits of
77.6 M.
26 June 2009
Metro Success for Ansaldo STS in Saudi Arabia
A$260million contract to deliver first automatic metro to world’s largest uni campus
Ansaldo STS will design, build and put into service an automatic metro system for the
Princess Noura Bint Abdulrahman women’s university in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The automatic metro will be the first for the university which is the largest university
campus in the world.
This latest metro contract win gives Ansaldo STS a foothold in the Saudi Arabian market,
one of the most active in the rail and metro transport sectors.
Ansaldo STS has formed a temporary consortium with AnsaldoBreda to deliver the project
which is worth approximately AU$260 million to Ansaldo STS.
Ansaldo STS has been awarded similar contracts from the automatic metro systems
sector including Brescia, Line 5 in Milan, Line C in Rome, Thessaloniki in Greece, the
Circular Line in Taipei and the award winning Copenhagen metro system.
Media Contact:
Anne Richardson, tel. +61 438 626 909
richardson.anne@ansaldo-sts.com.au
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