Siemens announced that it has started a 15-year technical support and spare parts supply agreement with the U.S. passenger rail operator Amtrak for its 70 new Siemens ACS-64 electric locomotives in operation on the Northeast Corridor. This is Siemens’ largest technical support contract for passenger locomotives to-date in the U.S.
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Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice-President of Russian Railways, Igor Mikhalkin, Managing Director, Research and Production Centre of Informational and Transport Systems (RPC INFOTRANS), and Dietrich Moeller, President of Siemens Russia and Vice-President of Siemens AG, signed at InnoTrans a memorandum on cooperation on integrated railway infrastructure diagnostics. The partners are interested in
OBB orders nine more Railjet train sets for EUR 145 million
ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG, Austria’s largest mobility service provider, exercised the option in its 67 Railjet train sets contract with Siemens for a further 9 units. The total value of the contract is EUR 145 million, consisting of the rolling stock base price of EUR 117 million and additional options requested by ÖBB (WLAN, adjustable seats, ecopaket, Italian standards). ÖBB fleet
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Sinara Group presents its product portfolio at Innoprom
Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev visited Sinara Group and TMK joint exhibition stand at “Innoprom 2014″, international industrial trade fair. Accompanied by Dmitry Pumpyansky, board chairman of TMK and Sinara Group, Siegfried Russwurm, Prof. Dr. Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and Juan Garcia, Regional Director of CAF, the prime minister was presented with the metro car
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Thales and Siemens to install signalling, telecommunications and security technologies on Antequera – Granada HSL
A Temporary Joint Venture (55/45) between Thales and Siemens Rail Automation has been awarded a €208.7 million contract by Adif Alta Velocidad for the installation signalling, telecommunications and securitty technologies, on the high-speed line linking Antequera and Granada, in the south of Spain. These solutions will ensure the security of
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Siemens – Sinara jv. requests extension of the zero import duty of Desiro RUS components until 2020
LLC Ural Locomotives, Sinara and Siemens joint venture, might face problems in reaching the 80% level of domestic production for Lastochka EMU by 2017. The companies asked for an extension of the zero-import duty on rolling stock components for this project until 2020. Ural Locomotives could save about EUR 100 millions based on
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Romanian rolling stock manufacturer, Astra Passenger Coaches (Astra Vagoane Calatori), and Arad Municipality signed last Friday a contract for the delivery of six Imperio tramways. The value of the contract is approximately EUR 8.3 million. “Today is extremely important to us. We acquired the best tramway license from Siemens and
Ural Locomotives presented the Lastochka oo1
Ural Locomotives, a joint venture of Sinara Group and Siemens, presented the first S2G city express train based on the Lastochka (Swallow) high-speed electric train, celebrating in the same time 10 years of activity. The Russian version has suffered a series of design modifications in order to better adapt to
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The Mobility Opportunity study: Cities can significantly boost their GDP by investing in public transport
Worldwide, major cities stand to gain around $800 billion per year of economic opportunity from 2030 by upgrading their public transportation networks. This is according to a study “The Mobility Opportunity” conducted by London-based consulting firm, Credo, and presented today in Singapore. Commissioned by Siemens, the study looks at transportation
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Siemens equips three sections of track in Hungary with ETCS train protection system
Siemens has received three orders from Hungary to supply signaling and control technology. The company will equip two sections of the line between the Budapest suburb of Ferencváros and the small eastern town of Gyoma with ETCS (European Train Control System) Level 2. The third section to be fitted with
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