Alstom

Alstom has signed a memorandum of understanding with Air Products, the world's largest producer and supplier of hydrogen, for the use of this type of fuel in the railway transport of the Czech Republic and the creation of an appropriate infrastructure.

Alstom, infrastructure manager ProRail and Belgian freight operator Lineas have completed testing of an automated shunting locomotive near Breda.

ALSTOM has announced that it will join Engie to develop hydrogen propulsion for long-haul freight transport, based on a fuel cell-equipped generator car that can power electric locomotives away from a catenary.

Alstom has launched the production of bogies for suburban trains, metros and trams at a new site in Nadarzyn near Warsaw with an investment of over 10 million euros.

The MoU was signed by Mr. Khaled ALHARBI, Senior Vice President of Operations at Saudi Railway Company and Mohamed KHALIL, Managing Director of Alstom in Saudi Arabia.

Alstom has demonstrated a partially double-deck Coradia Stream High Capacity electric train for the Luxembourg Railways (CFL).

Railway reform authority ARF has awarded Alstom a contract to supply an additional 17 Coradia Stream interregional electric trains and provide 15 years of maintenance.

Alstom will present the Coradia Stream train and the Traxx locomotive at the InnoTrans exhibition in Berlin. During the exhibition, the hydrogen train will run around Berlin, informs Railway Supply magazine, citing Nakolei.

Slovak Economy Minister Richard Sulik believes that the hydrogen train will start running on the Nowe Zamky-Prievidza line by the end of this parliamentary term, which will last until 2024.

French rail vehicle manufacturer Alstom has announced it has won a major contract worth around 858 million euros for the design and supply of a system for a new light rail line in Tel Aviv, including the supply of 98 trams.

The French engineering concern and the largest Polish oil refinery PKN Orlen signed an agreement on strategic cooperation.

The federal state of Baden-Württemberg is purchasing 130 high-capacity four-car double-decker Coradia Stream trains for €2.