Next May, Swedish commuters will be putting their faith in a Singaporean company to ensure they get to work on time. ComfortDelGro, a Singapore-based transport operator, won a bid earlier this year to operate and maintain the Stockholm Metro for 11 years. Connecting Stockholm, its joint venture with U.K.-based Go-Ahead Group, will oversee 100 stations, six depots, and 107 kilometers of track.
ComfortDelGro is a relatively late entrant in the business of mass rapid rail. Its subsidiary SBS Transit only started operating its first rail line, Singapore’s North East Line, an autonomous metro rail line, in mid-2003. SBS Transit’s second line, the country’s Downtown Line, which is also autonomous, came a decade later.
