client: Marubeni Corporation
provision: Marmaray Depot, Maintenance and Rescue Equipment
completed: 2010
In May 2007 Marubeni Corporation awarded Design & Projects a turnkey contract for the supply of the depot and mobile maintenance and rescue equipment for the project. The contract value amounted to Euros 25.4 million.
The requirement was for equipment to equip six workshops; four existing for the current commuter system, and two new workshops to maintain the fleet of 440 vehicles being supplied by Hyundai Rotem. In addition there was a requirement for maintenance and rescue vehicles for the new system.
The scope of supply included the following equipment:
- Single underfloor wheel lathe *
- Tandem underfloor wheel lathe *
- Shunters for the underfloor wheel lathes *
- Single car paint booth *
- Forklift trucks *
- 25 tonne mobile jacks (4 sets of 4) *
- 40 tonne mobile jacks (2 sets of 4) *
- Turntables (3) *
- Bogie drop table *
- Overhead cranes *
- Train washes (4)*
- Depot protection systems (4) *
- Car and locomotive pullers (5 sets) *
- Machine tools *
- Access lift tables (6) *
- Compressed air systems *
- Locomotive sanding system *
- Vertical storage carousels (2) *
- Hand tools *
- Welding equipment
- Storage equipment
- Woodwork equipment *
- Battery chargers *
- Road/rail wiring wagons (2)
- Road/rail re-railing vehicles (4)
- Tunnel rescue vehicles (2)
- Road/rail rescue vehicles (4)
- Shunting locomotives (2)
AMD Consortium Contract CR1
Marubeni Corporation were part of the AMD Consortium who had the main contract for the construction of the infrastructure for the Marmaray Project. The Consortium also included Alstom and Doğus.
In April 2010, the contract between the AMD Consortium and the end Client (DHL) was terminated. Consequently, the sub-contract between Marubeni and D&P was also terminated. At that time a significant amount of design work had been completed and all of the items marked * above had been manufactured and delivered to Istanbul.
Construction of the Marmaray project started in May 2004. The Marmaray tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait was completed on the 23rd of September 2008, with a formal ceremony to mark completion of the tunnel on October 13 2008. Completion of the entire project has been repeatedly delayed, with the first phase finally opening on 29 October 2013, as the first standard gauge rail connection between Europe and Asia.
