At the recent UITP Global Public Transport Summit kept in Montreal, Canada, the Saudi Arabian bus driver SAPTCO (Saudi Public Transportation Company) and the French public transport company RATP Dev (Rgie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) authorized an agreement for 242 MALE Lion's City M city buses. Scheduled for shipment in 2018, these will certainly be the very first MAN buses on the roads of the Saudi Arabian funding Riyadh. MAn Truck and Bus' main partner in Saudi Arabia, Haji Husein Alireza Co. Ltd. (HHA) managed the whole tender process and will function carefully with the client ensuring the greatest standards in quality and security are satisfied.

SAPTCO and RATP Dev have worked together as the joint-venture Public Transport Company (PTC) because 2014 and are in charge of building up a public transport network in Saudi Arabia from scratch. The Paris-based RATP Dev is accountable for operations, while SAPTCO takes control of the fleet monitoring. In total amount, they plan to build up 100 paths with 1,000 vehicles. MAN Lion's City M buses are created making travel delightful and reliable at the very same time. The 242 city buses will certainly be 10.5 metres lengthy and function Euro 5 engines with 290 PS (213 kW) of power. To meet the Seite 2/2 demanding needs of transportation in Riyadh, the bus uses charitable room and flaunts 29 comfortable seats with enough legroom, colored windows and high-performance air conditioning. Like the interior, the exterior has actually been especially designed to meet the consumer's requirements, including producing an unified identification for the new public transport network.

" We are thrilled to add to Saudi Arabia's transport landscape with our state-of- the-art MALE Lion's City buses linking its people and cities," states Franz von Redwitz, Managing Director, MAN Truck & Bus Middle East. "We are positive that we will have the ability to take our partnership to even greater success in the years ahead."

Taher El-Khatib, General Manager, Haji Husein Alireza & Co. Ltd., stated, "As the oldest and most reputed automobile representative in the Arabian Peninsula, Haji Husein Alireza & Co. Ltd. (HHA) brings considerable knowledge and capacities in the industrial vehicle business along with an extensive network of branches across Saudi Arabia. We waiting to working closely with MAN in boosting connectivity within Riyadh and adding to the transformation of the city's public transportation system."