Olympic Games Participants Were Carried on Czech Wheels
09 July 2010
Bonatrans Group, a member of KKCG investment group, left a significant footprint at the technical assurance of the Winter Olympics Games in Vancouver.
The company supplied wheels and axles for 40 cars that carried Olympic Games participants from the airport to the city on a newly built line, a part of the Vancouver city transit.
A completely new line called Canada Line measures 19.2km and it is a part of the Skytrain transport system that is an essential part of Vancouver transit system. The line was built especially for the purpose of transport during the Winter Olympic Games.
In common transit, the line transports about 100 thous, people a day but this number more than doubled during the Olympic Games. The service from Richmond through the airport to Valncouver is operated by Hundai-Rotem trains with maximal speed of 80kph for which BONATRANS GROUP supplied wheels and axles.
"It is a very prestigious order for our important customer. Wheels for Vancouver have been manufactured under our own design data, which means that the idea as well as its realisation was completely performed in Bohumin," says Mr Jakub Weimann, the commercial director of Bonatrans Group.
The contract for the Vancouver transit system included 320 wheels and 160 axles.
