Re: Tram manufacture

["Ross \(Goldie\) Goldspink" <goldicom@powerup.com.au>]

Maybe a capacity problem - maryborough are flat out with a long order book.

They have built stuff for the cup of rice a day labour force countries in
Asia,

Goldie


"whitehat" <whitehat@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> It appears that both of Melbourne's tram companies will be buying their
new
> trams from Europe (Germany and France I think).
>
> The claim is that (among other things) local manufacture could  not
compete
> on price. What is going on? Local manufacturers claims to be world class.
> They are not competing with third world cheap labour but with high wage
> European labour. The trams have to be shipped half way around the world at
> enormous cost and even with that huge advantage local manufacture cannot
> compete.
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> whitehat
>
>