USA: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, MTA, put into revenue service a five-car trainset on the 22.5 km urban Staten Island Railway.
The new geopolitical conditions are no longer having a major impact on the industry, as evidenced by the dynamics of changes in revenues and backlogs of orders of the major players in the rolling stock market.
Efforts to increase train speeds continue unabated, with new countries, such as Russia, joining the exclusive club of manufacturers.
Japan: The seven-car trainset started operation on the 403 km line connecting Tokyo and the city of Shinjō in the northern part of Honshu island. It was first unveiled last February.
India relies on the creation and expansion of its own facilities and technology transfer with mandatory localisation under the national programme Make in India.
ROLLINGSTOCK Agency analysed the public financial and management statements of 14 major global manufacturers.
Japan: The passenger operator unveiled the first train with a top speed of 300 km/h. Its Tsubasa commercial operation is scheduled for the spring of 2024.
USA: A $1.7 bln option would allow the manufacturer to expand the contract with the MTA to supply 1,175 metro cars. At the same time, Kawasaki announced that the delivery of the first trains was delayed by 1.5 years.
Japan: As the tests of the E956 series train are completed, Takeshi Matsunuma, Editor-in-Chief of Toyo Keizai, reviewed the high-speed train prototypes that have been produced since the early 1990s.
