First transport from Salerno, Italy, gets under way / Cerinthus transports train with six cars / Total of 42 trains with 252 metro cars to depart for Lima by February 2019

Hapag-Lloyd loads a metro train with six cars today in Salerno, Italy. The train will be shipped aboard the Cerinthus to the Peruvian port of Callao. From there, it will be transported to the capital Lima using low-loader trucks.

The journey from Italy to Peru will take around 29 days. 42 metro trains with a total of 252 cars will be shipped to Peru by February 2019. The modern, driverless trains have been built in Italy and are destined for the newly constructed Line 2 in the Peruvian capital.