Engineering and property services company United Group Limited (UGL) is pleased to confirm the Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM) consortium has been selected as preferred tenderer to operate and maintain Melbourne’s passenger train franchise.
UGL is a 20% shareholder in MTM. The other shareholders are MTR Corporation and John Holland. The consortium will operate and maintain the Melbourne passenger train franchise for an initial period of eight years.
“Our selection as preferred tenderer strengthens our position as one of the Asia Pacific region’s leading providers of end-to-end passenger rail solutions,” UGL Managing Director & CEO Richard Leupen said.
“In 2009, UGL has also extended our MainTrain passenger car maintenance contract and our Oscar passenger car supply contracts with RailCorp in NSW, and secured the local content portion of the supply of Alstom trains in Melbourne.”
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