Top 5 most populous megacities worldwide
The United Nations has released fresh data on the most populous cities in the world. Let's take a look at the top megacities by population.
The main plant of Airbus is sutuated in France. The first airliner here had been realized already as far back as in the 20th century. Last year, 308 passenger aircrafts were produced in the plant located in Toulouse. This is one of the biggest plants of the company — the total number of staff is equal to 21 thousand.
Today, only this France aircraft brand has production plants not only in the native country, but in other states that allows the enterprise to minimize foreign exchange risk. So, the factory in Hamburg began its activity in 2008. Nowadays, it is one of the large scale foreign plants of the company. 12 thousand employees work in the industry. Last year more than 250 aircrafts of the A320 model were produced in the factory.
One more plant that produces Airbus planes is situated in the Chinese city of Tianjin. It was founded in 2009, and in 2014 the enterprise managed to produce 48 airliners per year. A total of 1,300 employees work in the plant.
Two years ago the Airbus company started construction of the new plant in the United States of America. Already this year, the first liner here must roll off the production line. Airbus plans to produce 40-50 aircrafts in the American plant by 2018.
The Boeing company from the United States of America takes the first place in the world in terms of a number of produced passenger airliners. About 30% of the global aircraft fleet was produced in the factory of the city of Renton, situated near Seattle. Last year the 723 new Boeing 737 liners rolled off the production line. The company also has a plant in Everett, which is also located not far from Seattle.
The Sukhoy aircrafts produced for civil aviation have been being assembled in the plant of Komsomolsk-on-Amur since 2011. Last year 37 regional airliners with a capacity of up to 100 passengers were produced in the plant. Today the company creates a larger SSJ version. The Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company intends to contribute 16,3 billion rubles to the project.
The nationalorporation is currently developing the new MC-21 short range aircraft. Test model of the liner will be produced by the end of the current year. And in 2018 the company is scheduled to supply customers with such airliners.
The Canadian Bombardier company started production of airliners in 1992. In nine years of the aircraft production activity of the brand, Bombardier began commercial service of the CRJ700 passenger aircraft plane. Last year the enterprise supplied the new owners with 56 such liners.
The Brazilian Embraer aircraft manufacturing brand has been assembling commercial aircrafts for 20 years. 10,000 people work at the main production center of the company in Sao Paolo. The E190 passenger liner became available for sales in 2006. Last year the enterprise managed to assemble and supply customers with 92 such aircrafts.
The СОМАС airliner manufacturer from China tries to impose competition of Boeing and Airbus. So far, no aircraft has been released from the brand factory in Shanghai, but customers are already beginning to look closely at the new company's liners with a capacity of 78 and 90 places.
The United Nations has released fresh data on the most populous cities in the world. Let's take a look at the top megacities by population.
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