Empresa de Manutenção de Equipamento Ferroviário
Empresa de Manutenção de Equipamento Ferroviário, SA ( EMEF ), in German "Company for the maintenance of railway material", is a Portuguese company based in Lisbon , whose main areas of activity are the maintenance and modernization of trains. EMEF is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Portuguese state railway Comboios de Portugal . EMEF is certified according to ISO 9001: 2000 and is considered one of the largest companies in the Portuguese metalworking industry.
history
In the course of a restructuring and for better workshop utilization, the state-owned Caminhos-de-ferro Portugueses (CP) decided in December 1992 to outsource its own workshops for the maintenance of the towing equipment to its own wholly owned subsidiary. The newly founded Empresa de Manutenção de Equipamento Ferroviário began work in January 1993, and a permanent contract with the CP railway company ensured that the material maintenance was initially smoothly handed over for the next few years. The main task was initially only the repair of the vehicle material of the CP .
In November 1994, the company expanded its areas of responsibility, and now it also took on the usual maintenance and servicing of the trains. A large number of small depots also went to the EMEF. In 1998, the EMEF took over the maintenance of non-CP trains for the first time: after negotiations with the operator Transdev, the EMEF has since been fully responsible for all trains of the Metro do Porto . In March 1999, EMEF and the Portuguese companies Fernave and Ferbritas founded the Lisbon-based company Fertrem , which provides technical and economic advice to railway companies in the national and international field.
In 2005 EMEF also produced freight wagons for the first time. Between April 2005 and 2008, the EMEF produced a total of 356 freight wagons for the railways of Bosnia-Herzegovina (28 Tadns type, 28 Habis type, 300 EAS-z type) and modernized 211 further, already used wagons. Since 2008, EMEF has been building a total of 22 LE4700 locomotives for the CP in cooperation with Siemens .
In 2006, the EMEF took over the former Bombardier and Sorefame plant in Amadora near Lisbon for 6.5 million euros in order to set up a technical base there. After a transition period, the EMEF service center will also move to Amadora.
The EMEF is represented throughout Portugal and is divided into five regional areas. The service center is located in Lisbon next to the company headquarters, other workshop groups are located in Barreiro , Entroncamento , Figueira da Foz and Guifões (near Porto). The parent company Comboios de Portugal is still one of the EMEF's largest customers ; in 2007 they transferred 65.49 million euros to the EMEF for all services performed.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Carlos Cipriano: Primeira das 25 novas locomotivas da CP já chegou a Portugal , [First of the 25 new locomotives of the CP is already in Portugal], Público , April 8, 2008
- ↑ Interview with Carlos Frazão, board member of EMEF on emef.pt (Portuguese)
- ↑ Empresa de manutenção da CP vai instalar-se na antiga Bombardier ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [CP maintenance company moves into old Bombardier factory], Público , March 24, 2006
- ↑ List of services over one million euros paid for by the CP, year 2007 ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Portuguese; PDF; 15 kB)
Web links
- EMEF website (Portuguese)