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Sumitomo – Mitsubishi Team Awarded Contract for Second Automated People Mover System at Miami International Airport

Written by thomas · Filed Under Commercial 

October 2, 2008

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MIAMI, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ — The Miami-Dade County Board of
Commissioners awarded Parsons Odebrecht Joint Venture (POJV) a contract to
build a 1.27-mile Automated People Mover (APM) system to run between Miami
International Airport (MIA) and the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC), an
off-airport multi-modal transportation center.

The POJV Team, which includes Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.
(MHIA) and its long-time partner, Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA),
was awarded the $259 million contract following a competitive bid process,
and the formal Notice-to-Proceed was issued to the POJV Team this month.

When complete, the system will have two station stops and will connect
the airport terminal with the MIC — a ground transportation hub that
includes transfers to regional rail, bus, and rental car services.

The Phase 1 contract includes the full turnkey design, engineering,
construction of the system and delivery of eight (8) state-of-the-art
Crystal Mover APM vehicles. Phase 2 of the contract is an option for
operations and maintenance, which may be exercised by the Owner following
successful system start-up.

The MIA Mover APM system is SCOA/MHIA’s second major APM project that
it has undertaken at MIA. In 1999, SCOA/MHIA was awarded a $109 million
contract to construct an APM system at MIA’s North Terminal. All the
vehicles for the North Terminal system have been delivered and construction
of the system is nearing completion.

As with the North Terminal APM system, the MIA Mover APM system will
utilize cutting-edge Crystal Mover vehicle technology, which is in
successful operation or in deployment at several major airports worldwide,
including Washington-Dulles International Airport, Atlanta
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Changi International Airport
(Singapore), Incheon International Airport (South Korea), Dubai
International Airport (UAE) and Hong Kong International Airport.

“In fact, over the past year, the SCOA/MHIA team has delivered more APM
vehicles to U.S. customers than all other APM suppliers combined,”
explained Gino Antoniello, Vice President for Transportation Systems, SCOA.
“For several of the aforementioned projects, SCOA successfully partnered
with MHIA to deliver APM systems with virtually unparalleled levels of
system safety, performance, and reliability — each incorporating the core
philosophies of quality, teamwork, and customer service and contributing to
the long-standing APM industry partnership between these two industry
leaders, which spans over three decades of worldwide success.”

On a local level, the MIA Mover project also provides several
opportunities for Miami-Dade County industry involvement through the
inclusion of a number of Community Small Business Enterprise (CSBE)
companies within the POJV Team and creating a number of permanent jobs to
help maximize the economic benefits to the region.

“SCOA and MHIA are proud to be selected for this critical project
undertaking and look forward to collaborating closely again with the Miami-
Dade Aviation Department and all key stakeholders to implement this project
successfully,” said Mr. Tetsuya Yamamoto, General Manager, MHIA
Transportation Systems Division.

Advancing through the new millennium, SCOA and MHIA continue to meet
the transportation challenges of the future head on, blazing new trails in
the domestic and worldwide APM market, and offering an attractive and
dependable alternative to the industry status quo.

Together, our companies are delivering innovative, safe, and reliable
transportation systems that continue to move the world.

About Sumitomo Corporation of America

Established in the U.S. in 1952, Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA)
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation (SC). Headquartered in
New York City, it is an integrated global trading firm with 12 offices
nationwide and over 80 subsidiary and affiliate companies. SCOA has more
than 25 years experience delivering transit systems in the U.S. In addition
to APM systems, SCOA has developed, managed, and delivered transit systems
for Chicago’s METRA, the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District,
the Maryland Mass Transit Administration, California’s CALTRANS Peninsula
Joint Powers Board, the Los Angeles County MTA, the New York City Transit
Authority and the Virginia Railway Express.

About Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), founded in 1870, offers 30
years of proven experience in the design, construction, testing, and
commissioning of Automated People Mover (APM) systems. Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries America, Inc. (MHIA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of MHI and is
a global leader in delivering proven transportation solutions, with several
decades of experience successfully supplying a broad range of advanced
transportation systems for urban (intra-city and inter-city) and airport
applications. MHI’s transportation systems have already safely and
effectively transported hundreds of millions of passengers worldwide.

SOURCE Sumitomo Corporation of America

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