Rosenbauer wins EUR100 million Saudi Arabian airports contract
Monday, February 02, 2009
Austria-based Rosenbauer International AG, the world market leader for special-purpose vehicles, has signed a EUR100 million contract with the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) of Saudi Arabia to supply a total of 220 fire-fighting and rescue vehicles for airports in Saudi Arabia.
The order includes 62 Panther-type air crash tenders, 28 tank fire-fighters, 60 AT-type vehicles, 48 small fire-fighting vehicles, six hydraulic rescue vehicles and 16 rescue ambulances.
The vehicles are to be supplied and commissioned by the end of 2012. GACA had ordered the vehicles to increase security at 26 airports in the country, in compliance with ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) requirements.
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