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Pistoia. The 135 new diesel-electric trains ordered by Trenitalia at Hitachi Rail Italy will also be produced in the Pistoia factory (as well as in Naples and Reggio Calabria). The trade agreement provides for a guaranteed minimum of 70 convoys, up to 135, for an award amount of 1.6 billion euros
The new trains will enter into service from 2021.
The tender offer – according to a note from Trenitalia – has been awarded the criterion of the most economically advantageous tender, as the l & # 39; demands the public procurement code, badessing the most advanced and effective technical solutions as priority and pre-eminent. it is in addition to the investments already made for the supply of the 500 new regional Rock and Pop trains, already in production, for which a total investment of 4.3 billion euros is expected, which will begin to circulate in the spring 2019.
The new commercial success of Hitachi Rail Italy ends with the supremacy of the AnsaldoBreda heir apparent among the suppliers of Trenitalia: not only has Hitachi already managed to obtain the largest share of cake, the 300 high frequency electric trains. The model developed for this race is Rock, currently in production in Pistoia.
Another batch concerned medium-frequency electric trains, 150 in all. Here is the French Alstom to impose, with his Pop.
A third part of the offer, smaller, concerned the supply (at the time) of 50 diesel trains without any guaranteed minimum production. This lot won the Swiss Stadler, which was the only one to bid. But difficulties arose between the customer and the supplier, which caused Trenitalia to revoke the badignment of the contract. Stadler appealed to the Tar by winning and forcing Trenitalia to a counter-appeal to the State Council.
The transportation company decided to re-launch the call for tenders, modifying some of the conditions. Meanwhile, the planned convoys are no longer 70 but 135, and this time there is a guaranteed minimum, which is precisely 70. It remains the type of diesel train, monopiano and bidirectional (without head and tail fixed).
Under these conditions, Hitachi has made its bid which has proved the most competitive. A victory that will bring more work under the sheds of the company headquarters in Pistoia, Naples and Reggio
And possible growth prospects
also confirmed in recent days in Reggio Calabria by the same CEO Maurizio Manfellotto who spoke about the necessary increase of 170 people for the current year. –
FABIO CALAMATI . BY NC ND CERTAIN RIGHTS RESERVED.
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