01 August 2016

Thyssenkrupp, one of the world’s leading elevator companies, has been awarded a contract to design, manufacture, supply, install and maintain 641 elevators and escalators for Lines One and Two of the Riyadh Metro.

The metro is part of the Riyadh Public Transit System project, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Lines One and Two are the first package of the six-line metro system that will run for a total length of 176 km across the city with 85 stations.

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