MONTREAL – Bombardier Inc. is in negotiations to repair cracks found in 56 Prague subway cars for which the Montreal transport giant produced the bogies that hold the wheels together.
While DPP, Prague’s transit authority, and Siemens AG, the main contractor that delivered the cars, reportedly insist that the problem is one of welding at a Bombardier plant, Bombardier claims the issue is one of poor maintenance.
In a telephone interview from Berlin, Bombardier Transportation spokesperson Immo von Fallois said that the two-year warranty on the cars expired long ago, but that the company is keen to come to terms with the Prague transit authority to maintain good relations.
Marc Laforge, a Montreal spokesperson for the company, called it “a dispute, a contentious one,� but added that it was too soon to tell whether it will end up in court.
Bombardier has offered to repair the 56 cars for 5,500 euros per car, or about 3 million euros, reported Czech websites aktuaklne.cz and czech
position.com.
DPP balked at that, saying its own firm could do the work for half that price, reported czechposition.com.
Von Fallois couldn’t confirm what was said, but noted that “this is all about money, of course.�
He said he didn’t “want to blame� Siemens AG, the German-based main contractor to which Bombardier delivered the bogies, but suggested they shared responsibility for repairing the cars.
“It’s not only a Bombardier issue,� von Fallois said. The bogies were not used “in the right and correct operating environment. �
Asked to explain, he added that “we delivered them properly and everything was OK� for several years.
The cars were delivered “more than 10 years ago,� he noted, and the warranty expired long ago.
Bombardier denies that the problem results from poor welding at its plant in Matranovak, Hungary, as both DPP and Siemens allege.
“For me, it has to be something about maintenance issues,� von Fallois said.
“We are not forced legally to do anything, but as a friendly and morally responsible Canadian company, we will do what we can to solve it with the customer.
“We are not skipping away from our responsibility, but we are looking for an answer.�
Bombardier has been in the Czech Republic “successfully for many years and this is the first time there is trouble, so we want to solve it.�
DPP said that despite the cracks, the cars are checked regularly and are safe to operate.
Two other Prague metro lines still operate Soviet-made wagons.
fshalom@montrealgazette.
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