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| Siemens Signed Contracts with Russian Railways  Siemens' Transportation Systems Group is to supply eight Velaro type high-speed trains to Russian Railways (RZD) and also assume responsibility for their maintenance for a period of 30 years. The contract for the trains and the maintenance is worth about EUR 600 million. The corresponding contracts were signed by Siemens and RZD in Sochi, Russia. "This order will give Russia the most modern high-speed trains in the world, " said Hans M. Schabert, President of the Transportation Systems Group of Siemens, at the contract signing ceremony.Designed to travel at 250 km/h, these new trains are to be used initially on the Moscow–St. Petersburg route and, later on, operate between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. The contract signed for the delivery of the trains was preceded by a EUR 40 million development contract that had been concluded in April 2005. The design and planning work for the Russian high-speed train will be done at Siemens' two German locations, Erlangen and Krefeld-Uerdingen. Train production will likewise take place in Germany. A localization of production activities is also planned. The last trains are due to be delivered by 2010. The train for Russia, called Velaro RUS, is based on Siemens' high-speed train platform "Velaro", a development which originally began with the ICE 3 train for Deutsche Bahn (DB AG). write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |