Quito, 15 Mar Eleven companies, including two Spaniards, one Chilean, one Colombian, one Brazilian and one Dominican, have been interested in participating in the process for the award of the Quito metro operator, whose first line is scheduled to start operating in the last quarter of 2022. Metro de Quito, the metropolitan company in charge of this transport system, reported in a statement that it is in dialogue with different international railway operating companies as well as in contact with their respective embassies in Ecuador. Among the firms that have visited the Quito Metro facilities and held meetings with their leaders are two Spanish public companies: Renfe, the largest railway company in Spain, and TMB, which operates the Barcelona Metro. Also visited the Ecuadorian capital, representatives of the Passenger Transport Company Metro, Chile; the Medellín Metro (Colombia), the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Company (Brazil) and the Santo Domingo Metro. The Italian-Japanese Hitachi Rail STS, the French RATP DEV, Transdev and Keolis, and the German Deustsche Bahn have also shown interest. All these companies held meetings with the general manager of Metro de Quito, Efraín Bastidas, as well as with the delegates of the operations and equipment and facilities management, in order to share experiences and deepen the technical, legal and administrative aspects of submitting bids. The Quito metro, whose construction began in 2013, will be the first in Ecuador and will travel the capital of the Andean country from north to south along a 22.6-kilometer route, where 15 stations are built where a fleet of 18 trains will stop, which are in the final phase of integration tests. The work, carried out by the Spanish company Acciona in record time after a public investment exceeding 2 billion dollars, is pending final delivery pending the Quito municipality to resolve how to manage it, after several unsuccessful attempts.
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