Re: Tram manufacture

["James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

In article <39e442cf@grissom>,
  "Ross \(Goldie\) Goldspink" <goldicom@powerup.com.au> wrote:
> 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,

But EDI-rail group's Bathurst/Somerston and Adtranz Dandenong are very
much empty at the moment.



> Goldie
>
> "whitehat" <whitehat@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> 39e4c255@news.alphalink.com.au">news:39e4c255@news.alphalink.com.au...
> > 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
Look at the archieve of this newsgroup 6 month ago. There were many
discussions regarding order from Oversea manufactures

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