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  • La RATP renouvelle sa confiance à Hitachi Rail pour assurer la maintenance de ses réseaux de métro et tramway

    Le contrat d’un montant d’environ 33M€, s’inscrit dans la continuité d’un partenariat historique de plus de 100 ans avec le métro parisien.
    Hitachi Rail fournit à la RATP, des services de maintenance complets et ininterrompus depuis 1913, assurant ainsi la disponibilité 24h/24 et 7j/7 des transports quotidiens pour des millions de franciliens.
    Acteur majeur de l’industrie ferroviaire mondia

  • Hitachi Rail awarded contract to operate and maintain Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University autonomous metro in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Powering sustainable connectivity for 60,000 students Further recognition of Hitachi Rail as a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions
    Hitachi Rail announced today that it has signed a €72.5 million contract with Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University to operate and maintain the autonomous metro system in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the next three years.

    The Princess Nou

  • Hitachi Rail partners exclusively with Intermodal Telematics to offer a digital solution to improve rail freight efficiency and safety

    Exclusive Intermodal Telematics partnership establishes Hitachi’s full digital freight monitoring service The Netherlands based company is the market leader in the development of monitoring sensors and telematic solutions for freight railcars and containers Partnership will complement Hitachi’s acquisition of Perpetuum, enabling it to monitor freight wagons and cargo in a complete fashion in rea

  • Hitachi and Alstom win order to build and maintain High Speed Two trains in Britain

    Major economic boost – thousands of green jobs created and secured to build new generation of 54 high speed trains in North and Midlands, adding £1.1billion GVA during manufacturing to grow and level up the economy The contract – worth around £2billion - will be delivered at Hitachi Rail’s new advanced welding facility in Newton Aycliffe, at a new production line at Alsto

  • Hitachi and Eversholt Rail develop battery for a GWR intercity battery hybrid train trial

    Hitachi Rail and Eversholt Rail are in the advanced stages of designing and engineering an electric-diesel-battery (tri-mode) train, with plans to trial on a Great Western Railway (GWR) Class 802 train in 2022.
    With proof of concept and layout in the final stages of approval, work has begun to build the battery for functional testing and integration onto the train. The battery, which will be

  • Hitachi Rail and Angel Trains to create intercity battery hybrid train on TransPennine Express

    Hitachi Rail, Angel Trains and TransPeninne Express (TPE) agree to trial retrofitting battery on intercity train Trial, starting next year, can cut fuel usage by at least 20% and reduce emissions on Transpennine network from 2022 onwards Tri-mode service can cut noise pollution in urban areas and improve air quality
    Hitachi Rail, Angel Trains and TPE have agreed in princi

  • FERROVIENORD and Hitachi Rail sign contract for 50 high capacity trains

    The Lombardy Region Plan will deliver 131 “Caravaggio” trains in total
    Milan – FERROVIENORD and Hitachi Rail STS SpA signed the third supply contract for 50 high capacity “Caravaggio” regional trains for the amount of 451,850,000 euros, within the 2018 Framework Agreement.

    40 trains are in long configuration (5 cars) and 10 in short configuration (4 cars). With previous contracts other 5

  • Hitachi Rail cuts carbon emissions by 30.5% in 2020-21

    Major cut in the global transport leader’s emissions driven by improved energy management activities and higher use of renewable energy Reduction in emissions achieved even after COVID-19 impacts are accounted for More than doubles progress from 2019-20, which saw 14.2% cut in total CO2 equivalent emissions Future reductions to come from solar PV at facilities, further

  • Three Hitachi Rail trains win Japan’s prestigious Good Design Award

    Award recognises quality of design used on three different Hitachi fleets: JR Central’s N700S Shinkansen bullet trains, the Tokyo Metro and Taiwan’s Intercity services Good Design Award is Japan’s leading design award, focused on recognising excellent designs that facilitate industrial development and enriching lives Award-winning trains praised as fast, comfortable, and environmentally friendl

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