Bombardier Transportation says that its Chinese joint venture, Shentong Bombardier Rail Transit Vehicle Maintenance Co. (SHBRT), has been awarded two contracts with Shanghai Shentong Metro Group to provide 10-year overhaul service for 498 metro cars operating on Shanghai Metro's lines 7 and 9.

Together, the contracts are valued at around $158 million.

The JV will maintain almost 500 Shanghai metro cars.Under the contracts, the joint venture will overhaul Shanghai Metro's fleet of 498 metro cars, which were built by another Bombardier Chinese venture, Changchun Bombardier Railway Vehicles Co.

The overhauls will use Bomardier's ORBITA train monitoring system and the Maximo Asset Configuration Manager application. Each is a predictive asset management and vehicle maintenance tool that the company says will improve the reliability and availability of the metro cars.

Since 1999 Bombardier joint ventures have won orders to provide Shanghai with more than 1,600 metro cars, together with the propulsion systems and maintenance. In 2015, a separate joint venture won a contract to provide the city's first automated people mover system.

Bombardier Transportation in China has six joint ventures, seven wholly foreign-owned enterprises, and more than 6,000 employees. Together, the joint ventures have delivered more than 3,500 high speed railway passenger cars, 580 electric locomotives and over 2,000 metro cars.