Marubeni Gets $67 Million Malaysia Train-Car Order, Nikkei Says

By Stanley White

Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Marubeni Corp., the Japanese trading house that's helping build a rail tunnel under The Bosporus Strait, won a 240 million ringgit ($67 million) order for 30 train cars from Malaysia's government, the Nikkei newspaper said.

The cars will be used on a new 180-kilometer (112-mile) rail link between Kuala Lumpur and the northern city of Ipoh, Nikkei reported without saying where it got the information.

Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and South Korea's Hyundai Rotem Co. will manufacture the cars for delivery by 2010, the newspaper said.

None of the companies were available for comment.

To contact the reporter on this story: Stanley White in Tokyo at swhite28@bloomberg.net