Africa-Press – Cape verde. CP-Comboios de Portugal announced today (Tuesday 28) that the French industrial group GEC-Alstom won the tender for the acquisition of 117 trains, the largest purchase ever, worth 819 million euros.
The public railway company CP decided to “award the procedure for the acquisition of 117 electric railcars, the largest purchase ever, worth 819 million euros, to the group formed by the French Alstom”, reads the statement.
GEC Alstom (GEC-Groupe Electrique C Alsthom, originally Alsthom) is a French industrial group that operates in the area of energy and transport infrastructure and is present in several countries, including Brazil, where it has more than 50 thousand employees. Remember that she was convicted in European justice in 2016, for bribing Petrobrás to win bids for supply contracts.
Cape Verde Diaspora . The company, originally Alsthom, has been linked to the Cape Verdean diaspora since the 1960s — through a (relatively) important Cape Verdean emigration that in the 1960s headed to Alsace-Lorraine to work in the metallurgical and railway industry.
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