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Ukraine: The Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office announced the opening of criminal proceedings against officials of one of the largest freight and passenger rolling stock manufacturers in the country.
Since the beginning of the year, Alstom has signed several contracts for the supply of more than 60 LRVs for transportation systems in Latin America and Europe, but terminated a large contract in India.
Switzerland: The manufacturer won the tender for the supply of up to 510 FLIRT trains for the SBB operator and its two subsidiaries back in October 2021. However, the contract was not awarded then due to Alstom's complaint.
PC TS handed over the tram with the ATO system by Cognitive Tram Pilot to the customer, CAF announced the trials of the computer vision system in Spain and Norway, and UKCP moved the deadlines for unmanned tram development.
The manufacturer said that its specialists have already begun work. Earlier, the authorities of the LPR reported that the Russian company would organize production at the Stakhanov Railway Car Building Works.
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.