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  • Hitachi Rail Italy is Awarded a Contract for the Supply of New Double Deck Regional Trains

    Hitachi Rail Italy is Awarded a Contract for the Supply of New Double Deck Regional Trains

    Hitachi Rail Italy S.p.A. today announced that it was awarded a contract by Trenitalia to build 39 trains with 5 cars each, worth 333 million Euros. The contract award is part of a framework agreement to build up to 300 regional trains, for a total amount of approximately 2.6 billion Euros. The new fleet will operate across the Italian regional network of over 16,000 km.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy is awarded a contract for the supply of new double deck Regional Trains

    Hitachi Rail Italy is awarded a contract for the supply of new double deck Regional Trains

    Hitachi Rail Italy S.p.A. (Hitachi Rail Italy) today announced that it was awarded a contract by Trenitalia to build 39 trains with 5 cars each, worth 333 million Euros. The contract award is part of a framework agreement to build up to 300 regional trains, for a total amount of approximately 2.6 billion Euros. The new fleet will operate across the Italian regional network of over 16,000 km.

  • Hitachi Rail Newton Aycliffe HR team. (L-R) Caroline Towers, Louise Williams, Jacquie Smith, Julia Potts, Kevin Bainbridge, Sam Plant, Nina Harding, Kirby Oliver, Jordan Hazell, Fern Whittaker

    Hitachi Rail Europe HR team success

    London UK, Monday 20 June 2016; The HR team at Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd. (HRE) in Newton Aycliffe is celebrating after being crowned the HR&D team of the year at the North East of England CIPD awards.

  • Ansaldo STS and Hitachi, Ltd. sign turnkey contract with Dorts of New Taipei City

    Ansaldo STS and Hitachi, Ltd. sign turnkey contract with Dorts of New Taipei City


    Genoa, Italy and Tokyo, Japan, June 21, 2016
    Ansaldo STS and Hitachi, Ltd. as members of the ARH consortium (including Ansaldo STS SpA, RSEA Engineering Corp. and Hitachi, Ltd.), have signed a turnkey contract with New Taipei City Government Department of Rapid Transit System (NTCG DORTS).
    Ansaldo STS’s scope of work, as leader of the consortium, includes the supply of CBTC technol

  • Ansaldo STS update about the dispute on contract in Libya

    Ansaldo STS update about the dispute on contract in Libya


    Genoa, June 20th 2016
    The recent arbitration award, related to the dispute between the joint venture Ansaldo STS - Selex ES and Zarubezhstroytechnology (ZST) about the contract for the Sirth – Benghazi line in Libya, almost entirely rejected Ansaldo STS and Selex's counterclaims accepting ZST claims.
    Following the arbitration award, Ansaldo STS has to repay to ZST its own share of the r

  • Hitachi Rail Europe HR team success

    Hitachi Rail Europe HR team success

    The HR team at Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd. (HRE) in Newton Aycliffe is celebrating after being crowned the HR&D team of the year at the North East of England CIPD awards. The Hitachi team was recognised at an industry event for its recruitment and training processes that have seen over 500 new people recruited from over 16,000 applications last year.

  • Ansaldo STS and Hitachi, Ltd. sign turnkey contract with Dorts of New Taipei City

    Ansaldo STS and Hitachi, Ltd. sign turnkey contract with Dorts of New Taipei City


    Genoa, Italy and Tokyo, Japan, June 21, 2016
    Ansaldo STS and Hitachi, Ltd. as members of the ARH consortium (including Ansaldo STS SpA, RSEA Engineering Corp. and Hitachi, Ltd.), have signed a turnkey contract with New Taipei City Government Department of Rapid Transit System (NTCG DORTS).
    Ansaldo STS’s scope of work, as leader of the consortium, includes the supply of CBTC technol

  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and UK Prime Minister David Cameron visit Hitachi Train Maintenance Centre

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and UK Prime Minister David Cameron visit Hitachi Train Maintenance Centre

    Hitachi Rail Europe (HRE) was proud to host Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister David Cameron at its recently refurbished North Pole train maintenance centre in West London. As part of a UK visit by the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe joined UK Prime Minister David Cameron for a tour of the rail facility, which will serve as one of the maintenance centres for new IEP trains.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy presents the first train of the new Metro of Honolulu

    Hitachi Rail Italy presents the first train of the new Metro of Honolulu

    Directly from Hawaii, Hitachi Rail Italy unveiled yesterday the first of 20, 4-cars vehicles planned for the new metro of Honolulu. Manufactured and assembled in Italy, at the factory in Reggio Calabria, the cars are completed, furnished and equipped with all the foreseen technological innovations, in the HRI site of Pittsburgh in California and transported to Hawaii.

  • Hitachi Rail Italy participates to Expoferroviaria

    Hitachi Rail Italy participates to Expoferroviaria

    ​Technology, innovation, quality. With these 3 key points Hitachi Rail Italy, the most important Italian company specialized in rolling stock, recently taken over by the Hitachi Group, starts tomorrow in Turin. Until Thursday HRI will be at Expoferroviaria, the trade fair that every second year opens the season of the great exhibitions of the sector

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