OREANDA-NEWS. The JST Transmashholding and the Baku metro (Republic of Azerbaijan) signed a contract implementing the delivery of 25 metro cars manufactured by Metrovagonmash on November 28, 2006.

According to the press service of “Transmashholding”, the consumer will be receiving the following derivatives: 81-714/717.5B, ten of which will be head cars (81-717.5B), and 15 will be intermediate cars. Under the contract Transmashholding is to provide the cars for the Baku metro by the close of 2007.

It is noteworthy that the cars manufactured by Metrovagonmash have been operational with the Baku metro for over 30 years now. The latest delivery took place in 2004. Azerbaijan received 25 cars then. The total of metro cars manufactured by Metrovagonmash in service with the Baku metro is some 200 making 75 per cent of all the Baku metro cars.