Egypt: Siemens Mobility in a joint venture has signed a contract for the construction and maintenance for the country's 2,000 km HSR network including the rolling stock deliveries.
Poland: PKP Intercity plans to switch to “zero-emission” rolling stock by 2030. Alstom and Siemens are ready to offer solutions, as well as local Pesa is developing such vehicles.
Russia: Against the background of the situation in Ukraine and sanctions, the company has begun the procedure for terminating its business in Russia. At the same time, Siemens doubts about leaving China in the case of similar events.
Since the beginning of the year, the company has failed to win the contracts to supply almost 200 trams to Israel and 20 trains to Romania. In addition, CRRC has lost a contract to supply up to 33 trains to the Czech Republic and risks losing an order for 216 subway cars for India.
Turkey: The TCDD operator is going to put first 3 trains into operation this year. The EMUs were manufactured by the state-owned Türasaş. It is announced that vehicles meet European TSI standards and is localized by 75%.
Evgeniy Semenov, Executive Director of the Russian Wagon Building Union (WBU), in an interview with ROLLINGSTOCK told about the situation with the supply of one of the key modern freight cars components.
Iran: The head of Iranian Railways, Miad Salehi, said the company is negotiating the terms of the purchase. Recently, an agreement was signed between Iran and Russia on expanding cooperation in the transport sector.
Germany: The company won a €2.5 bln tender to supply 130 four-car Coradia Stream HC trains. Despite the presence of production facilities in the country, the rolling stock will be produced at Alstom's Polish site.
USA: At the end of May, a line is to be put into operation in the city of Tempe, along which 6 three-section Liberty NXT trams manufactured by Brookville, equipped with an on-board energy storage system, will begin to run.
