Alstom in talks to run double-decker trains on Channel Tunnel route

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Alstom negotiates with high speed, through a wave tunnel through a wave tunnel, which will invest prices and increase the capacity of the world’s second largest coaches to benefit from the European railway demand.

Chief Executive Henri Purart-Lofar said that the company’s trains can increase the marches of the native European routes from London, adding that its AVLIA Horizon will be able to pass through the tunnel under the wave.

“Double deck has a lot of advantages. This is a very fast train – the lowest price and highest power of each seat, “he said.

New trains can run more than 300 km / h and Alstom Although deliberations have already been delayed to provide them with the French railway operator SNCF, they have been delayed and are not expected until 2026.

Any new train working on Eurostar’s services should be approved by the operator, a process that can take “several years,” he added. Trains from London to Mother Land Europe must also be approved by regulators and comply with the strict security rules of “Tunnel”.

Comments come in Europe due to rail demand, and since the new providers seek to compete with Eurostar. Last weekThe Governments of Great Britain and Switzerland have outlined the plans to encourage direct services between London and Switzerland.

POUPART-LAFARG refused to comment on commercial discussions, but said. “Such a procedure will bring years.” He added that “talks are mainly negotiated with everyone” and trains have been developed to operate on all major European lines.

“We can offer [the train] Through the tunnel, “he said.

Rail suppliers including Sir Richard Branson’s Virgo and Italian state traffic They also study new services to challenge the 30-year monopoly of the European Eurostar on continental Europe in the UK.

The provision of new trains, which are certified, remain one of the biggest challenges of the offered new applicants, said industry experts.

Alstom has benefited from competition on routes in continental Europe, signing an agreement on 850 million euros in France to ensure and retain 12 of its bilateral trains.

POUPART-LAFARGE said that modernization of European railway infrastructure and increase in traffic will also benefit the company in the coming years. It has already seen the recent growing growth in Germany, including 3.6 billion euros, passenger trains for the S-Bahn Rheinland network of West Germany.

Strong demand in Europe helped business business on March 31, March 31, increasing the dollar of 19.8 billion euros, increasing 4.7 percent and analysts.

The business also reduced its debt burden of 3 billion euros in late March 2024, 434 million euros next year. Last year, the company smashed a state of cash flow, more slowly than expected deliveries and bomber bomb contracts, which were purchased in 2021.

It launched a 1 billion euro capital increase In May, it can help reduce and sell US alarm business, as well as selling a German railway factory, which plans to install the site to build tanks.

Poupart-Lafarge says that the challenges of its debt “don’t seem to water under water,” adding that the company does not strive to sell any other department.

However, the company will not pay 2024-25 financial year, by Poupart-Lafarge that it will do it when it was in “neutral monetary.”