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Serco to run Dubai Metro system for ten years
A UK-based international service company Serco will operate and maintain the Dubai Metro system for the first ten years of its operation, said a senior official.
- By Ashfaq Ahmed, Chief Reporter
- Published: 00:34 March 25, 2008
Dubai: A UK-based international service company, Serco, will operate and maintain the Dubai Metro system for the first ten years of its operation, said a senior official.
"The operator has been finalised after eight months of hectic work," Mattar Al Tayer, chairman and Chief Executive of the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority, said.
He said the company will provide operation and maintenance services to all assets of Dubai Metro system during the period of contract.
Serco will also provide job opportunities to UAE nationals and achieve about 20 to 30 per cent Emiratisation within five years of commencing operation.
"We will have around 80 per cent of UAE nationals trained to run the Dubai Metro system by the end of the contract," said Al Tayer.
"We have awarded the operation contract to a foreign company because there is no any local experience in these fields and it is difficult to establish a technical administrative unit to cater for metro operation without resorting to an experienced body in such line of business," he said.
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