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  • Hitachi Rail Italy and Ansaldo STS at Expo Ferroviaria 2017

    Hitachi Rail Italy and Ansaldo STS – since 2015 part of the Hitachi Group – will participate to the exhibition with a joint booth in which they will present their technology and their innovation that places them among the main players of the sector. EXPO Ferroviaria represents an important showcase for the two companies, as well as an opportunity of discussion and business in their own Country.

  • Rock: The New Regional Train presented to the Associations of Disabled Persons and Consumers

    Hitachi Rail Italy and Trenitalia have invited the associations of disabled persons and consumers to Pistoia to show them in advance the real scale mock-up of the new Rock regional train and meet with Hitachi’s and Trenitalia's designers and technicians. The mock-up of the train will be the protagonist of the road show that from next October will present it in the main Italian squares.

  • New Intercity Express Trains for Devon and Cornwall begin testing

    On Tuesday 8th August, the first of Great Western Railway’s Intercity Express Trains for Devon and Cornwall carried out test runs in Somerset, between Bruton and Cogload. Two more trains are due to arrive in the South West within the coming weeks as part of a comprehensive test programme.

  • Ansaldo STS publishes the 2016 Sustainability Report

    Genova, 1st August 2017
    We hereby announce that the eight edition of Ansaldo STS’s annual Sustainability Report for the year 2016 has been made available to the public on the Company’s website today.
    The Board of Directors approved the 2016 edition drafted in compliance with the G4 “Sustainability Reporting Guidelines ”In Accordance Core” option.
    This Report was subject to the limited

  • New Hitachi trains pass Department for Transport digital tests

    Hitachi’s new intercity trains, due to enter passenger service this autumn, have passed tests to run their digital technology required by the Department for Transport. The UK-built fleet, known as the Class 800s, is among the first in the country to successfully test an advanced level of digital signalling.

  • Hitachi Ansaldo Baltimore Rail Partners, LLC: Awarded 400.5 million USD contract for Baltimore Metro Subway Link by the Maryland Transit Administration

    Hitachi Ansaldo Baltimore Rail Partners, LLC, a company established between Hitachi Rail Italy SpA and Ansaldo STS USA, Inc. (the US subsidiary of Ansaldo STS SpA), has been awarded a $400.5 million contract from Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) to provide a new metro fleet of railcars and a Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) system for the Baltimore Metro Subway Link.

  • ANSALDO STS has been awarded of 100 million Euros framework agreement with RFI

    27 June 2017, 08:15 am
    Ansaldo STS has been awarded of a procurement procedure, within a framework agreement, worth of 100 million Euros
    The agreement scope of work includes the supply of technical assistance services, maintenance and repair; furthermore reconfiguration and upgrading of Ansaldo STS systems in revenue service on RFI network. The contract will last two years and is based on

  • Ansaldo STS signs MoU with Metroselskabet for Proof of Concept of new Dynamic Headway Solution leveraging Hitachi technologies for Copenhagen Metro

    08 June 2017, 11:45 am
    New technology to automatically adjust train frequency to best cater for change in passenger numbers
    Ansaldo STS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Metroselskabet to develop a Proof of Concept for a new Dynamic Headway solution leveraging Hitachi technologies for the Copenhagen Metro M1/M2.
    The new Dynamic Headway solution will be designed using b

  • Naples: the reopening ceremony of Scampìa Metrocampania

    30 May 2017, 16:30 pm
    “The reopening of Scampìa Metrocampania Nord East construction site is a remarkable event for the city, for Neapolitans and for our company.” These are Roberto Passalacqua’s main remarks (the Vice President Region railways & Mass Transit of Ansaldo STS), pronounced during the event which took place on the 30th of May 2017 in Naples (Italy). The ceremony has been atten

  • Hitachi Rail Italy and Ansaldo STS in Montreal for UITP 2017

    15 May 2017, 10:30 am
    Montreal (Canada), 15 May 2017 – Technology, innovation and sustainable development. These are the main topics at the core of the 62th edition of the UITP Global Public Transport Summit, the most important world exhibition on urban and regional transportation. The fair will take place at the Palais de Congres de Montreal – Canada – between the 15th and the 17th of May 2017

  • Hitachi on track to recruit for 250 jobs at newly built Doncaster rail depot

    Hitachi Rail Europe is on schedule to employ 250 people at their newly built Doncaster depot. The depot is hiring a brand new team to maintain new fleets of intercity trains inspired by Japanese bullet trains, which are due to start running next year. Hitachi has invested £80m in the Doncaster site to create a facility that is clean, light and packed with the most advanced industry technology.

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