First Hitachi-made metro unveiled in Florida Hitachi Rail Italy today presented the first vehicle for the new Metro for Miami-Dade County, with the Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez and the Japanese Consul General Ken Okaniwa in attendance.
This morning Prime Minister Matteo Renzi visited the Hitachi Rail Italy plant at Pistoia, welcomed by the Global CEO of Hitachi Rail Alistair Dormer, the CEO of Hitachi Rail Italy Maurizio Manfellotto, the CEO of Trenitalia Barbara Morgante and Lorena Dellagiovanna Country Manager of Hitachi Ltd.
Today Hitachi Rail Italy delivered train number 1 of the new automatic Lima Metro. The first 6 cars of the innovative train, built in Reggio Calabria were unloaded at the port of the Peruvian capital. The train, made of aluminium is 108 m long and 2,85 m wide, has a capacity of 166 seated and 1,105 standing passengers, and is capable of reaching a max speed of 90 km/h.
Hitachi Rail Italy disclosed today, at the plant in Reggio Calabria, the prototype train (in the picture) of the new driverless metro intended for DORTS (Department of Rapid Transit Systems), expression of the local Government of the Municipality of Taipei.
The UK Government has given official approval for First Great Western and its financing partner Eversholt Rail Group to purchase from Hitachi Rail Europe an additional seven trains for the West of England franchise in a new deal worth £139 million.
Hitachi rail Italy signed today the Framework Agreement with Trenitalia. The contract to build 300 new double deck Caravaggio trains is the result of a tender award by the State Railways group for a total amount of approximately 2.6 billion Euros.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The new TransPennine Express franchise, operated by FirstGroup has been given the go-ahead to complete a new rolling stock contract with Hitachi Rail Europe to supply 95 brand new, state of the art train carriages. The contract, for the fleet of AT300 ‘Inter City’ trains will lead to the procurement of 19 five-car Hitachi AT300 bi-mode trains, operating on both electric power and diesel power.
