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17 Dec 2024

Modern Coaches, New Routes: Vande Bharat, Metros Propel Transit Revolution

Indian Railways Highlights: The year 2024 brought a mix of challenges and progress for Indian Railways while marking significant advancements for the metro rail systems across the country. Indian Railways experienced several accidents but also made notable strides by introducing new trains, such as the Vande Bharat on additional routes, and launching the Amrit Bharat Express services on four routes. Meanwhile, Alstom supplied numerous new metro coaches to states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, supporting the expansion of urban transit networks. On the other hand, BEML built the world-class Vande Bharat sleeper coaches. The rapid development of track-based mobility solutions highlights a promising trajectory for India’s growth.

09 Feb 2024

Travel In Chennai Metro's Driverless Train By End Of 2025; Check Key Features

Rolling stock manufacturer Alstom said that it has commenced the production of world-class Metropolis trainsets for the Chennai Metro Phase II from its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Sricity.

10 Aug 2023

Germany Ditches Plan To Run World's 1st Hydrogen Train, Replaces With Electric

Germany deployed the world’s first-ever hydrogen-powered passenger train fleet, which includes a total of 14 trains, making it the cleanest train fleet yet.

05 Jul 2023

Alstom India To Onboard 58% Women Engineers Under Its Flagship Programme

This is the highest ever intake under this initiative in the country, the company said in a statement.

30 Mar 2023

Indian Railways: Alstom Delivers 300th Electric Locomotive At Nagpur Depot

Alstom India has delivered the 300th e-loco - WAG12B to the Indian Railways, and it is inducted by the Nagpur depot for freight duties.

Indian Railways

15 Nov 2019

Railway-Madhepura Electric Locomotive enter into procurement, maintenance deal

In 2015, the Ministry of Railways and Alstom came together to transform the heavy freight transportation landscape of the country. A landmark agreement worth 3.5 billion Euro was signed to manufacture 800 electric locomotives for freight service and its associated maintenance.

10 Apr 2018

Indian Railways to soon get country's most-powerful train engine

Indian Railways' WAG9 engines would be replaced by WAG12 engines in a phased manner - promising quicker train speeds at up to 110kmph for freight transportation.

HCL Technologies

25 Jan 2016

HCL to develop IT infrastructure for Alstom

Under the agreement, HCL will leverage its IT infrastructure capabilities to provide workplace engineering services, roll out PC as a Service (PCaaS) for 30,000 users worldwide and will enable local end-user support services across 360 locations in 62 countries.

General Electric

13 Jan 2016

GE to cut up to 6,500 jobs in energy units acquired from Alstom

General Electric said Wednesday it plans to cut up to 6,500 jobs in Europe from the energy units it acquired from France`s Alstom last year.

12 Nov 2015

Alstom to supply 800 electric engines to Indian Railways

Alstom Thursday said it has received letter of award for 3 billion euro contract from Indian Railways to supply 800 electric locomotives with a long-term associated maintenance.

Indian Railways

10 Nov 2015

FDI in Railways: GE, Alstom to set up Rs 40,000 cr factories to provide 1,000 locomotives

The contract agreements with both GE and Alstom will be signed in a month.

05 Nov 2015

Alstom in major share buyback after GE deal

Under the offer, 91.5 million shares, amounting to 29.5 percent of capital, will be repurchased at 35 euros apiece.

08 Sep 2015

EU approves $13.4 billion GE's Alstom buyout

The EU announced Tuesday it had approved a deal under which US giant General Electric will acquire the energy business of French company Alstom for 12 billion euros (USD 13.4 billion), after Alstom agreed to sell some assets to an Italian rival.

07 Sep 2015

EU regulators have approved GE-Alstom deal: Source

The European Union has approved a deal under which General Electric will acquire the energy business of French company Alstom for USD 12 billion, a source close to the transaction said Monday.

01 Sep 2015

FDI in railways: GE, Alstom ahead in race for bagging loco projects in Bihar

GE and Alstom are believed to be ahead of other bidders in the race to bag contracts for the setting up of multi-crore diesel and electric locomotive factories in Bihar that are among the top eight infrastructure initiatives which are being monitored by the PMO.

23 Jul 2015

Alstom's proposed JV bags Rs 1,497-cr contract from DFCCIL

"The proposed joint venture of Alstom India Ltd (AIL) and Alstom Transport S.A. (ATSA) has been issued a letter of acceptance by Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd," Alstom said in a BSE filing on Thursday.

14 Jun 2015

Alstom to hire up to 1,000 engineers in India in 3-4 years

French engineering major Alstom plans to hire 200-250 engineers annually in India over the next 3-4 years as it looks to double business to 800 million euro (about Rs 5,700 crore) in the country.

05 Jun 2015

Alstom T&D gets Rs 109 cr order from PowerGrid

"Alstom T&D India has been awarded a contract...By Powergrid Corporation of India Limited (PowerGrid) to supply ten 765 kV 500 MVA 1-ph auto transformers," the company said in a statement.

26 May 2015

Alstom Bharat Forge begins production at Sanand plant

Set up over an area of 185,000 square meters, the site boasts of an annual capacity of 4000 MW and producing equipment for several major power projects in India.

19 May 2015

CCI approves acquisition of Alstom's India assets by GE

Fair trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the acquisition of Alstom's India assets by General Electric as part of global deal.

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