KAZAKHSTAN Railways (KTZ) has selected KazElectroPrivod (KEP), a joint venture of Alstom and Kamkor, Kazakhstan, in a €90m contract to supply 10,000 point machines over a period of 10 years. Delivery will commence this year.
ALSTOM and Thales have been selected by JR East to negotiate a contract to install communications-based train control (CBTC) on the Ayase - Toride Joban Local suburban line in Tokyo with a view to awarding a contract to one of the companies in December. JR East plans to introduce CBTC on the line in about 2020.
ALSTOM and its Russian partner Transmashholding (TMH) are carrying out static and dynamic tests on the first 2ES5 double-unit electric locomotive for Russian Railways (RZD) at TMH's Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (NVEZ) in southwest Russia.
THE City of Ottawa has finalised a $C 2.1bn ($US 2.1bn) design, build, fund and maintain contract with the Rideau Transit Group for the Confederation Line, a 12.5km light rail line from Tunney's Pasture in the west to Blair in the east.
STADLER has beaten Alstom and Skoda, Czech Republic, in a tender to supply a fleet of double-deck emus to Aeroexpress for operation on services to Moscow's three airports. Stadler will supply 112 cars with an option for 60 more in a deal worth around €350m.
THE Municipality of Amsterdam has exercised an option worth around €42m to acquire five additional six-car Metropolis metro trains from Alstom.
Casablanca's inaugural light rail line, which began operations on December 12 2012, is already transforming public transport in Morocco's largest city, as Kevin Smith discovers.
ALSTOM has signed an agreement with Williams Hybrid Power to adapt energy storage technologies originally developed for the 2009 Williams Formula One car for use on light rail vehicles.
ALSTOM handed over the first of 19 Citadis low-floor LRVs for Paris light rail Line T7 to Mr Jean-Paul Huchon, chairman of Ile-de-France Transport Authority (Stif), in a ceremony at its La Rochelle plant on January 12.
HESSEN State Rail (HLB) has awarded two contracts worth about €40m to Alstom. One contract is for the supply of seven Coradia Lint dmus and the other is to modernise 25 existing Coradia Lint trains.
