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28.10.05

System - Chile- More Than 1,100 Volvo Buses Start Operating in Santiago

GOTEBORG, Sweden -PRIMEZONE - Oct. 24, 2005: -- On Saturday morning, 22 October, more than 1,100 Volvo buses took to the streets of Santiago, Chile's capital. It was the first day of the Transantiago operation, the largest public urban transport system in Latin America... It was the first time that such a large number of buses started operating at the same place, in a single day, in one of the largest efforts ever made in the world to improve a public transportation system... Deliveries of the modern Volvo B9SALF and B7RLE chassis will continue up to the first months of 2006, when all 1,779 buses (1,159 B9SALFs and 620 B7RLEs) will be fully delivered. This is the largest sale ever carried out by Volvo Buses... Even with the unexpected problems that can occur in any production program and with a logistics operation this large, Volvo do Brasil managed to overcome all setbacks and deliveries were made before the required date..l.

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