Alstom , a company dedicated to the manufacture of trains , confirmed that it will participate in the tenders carried out by the Government of Mexico for the different passenger train projects, since it has the capacity to build any type of model.
“When the tenders are issued, we will be very interested in participating, doing our best and making our proposals,” said Maite Ramos, the company’s general manager in Mexico.
In an interview, he said that the company has the capacity to build any type of train, such as the Mayan Train that uses diesel, dual-fuel, electric and one of the first to have a hydrogen train.
“We can build whatever technology you want, with whatever design, composition, material, build in aluminum, carbon, stainless steel,” he said.
The current federal administration has announced, so far, the beginning of preliminary studies for the AIFA-Pachuca Train and the Mexico-Querétaro Train , which will be developed by the military.
The first is estimated to require an investment of 44,667 million pesos (mdp). It will be a double-track electrified railway infrastructure, so it will have electric trains with a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour and a capacity of more than 700 passengers.
For the Mexico-Querétaro line, whose expected investment is 75 billion pesos, a fleet of trains with a capacity of 450 passengers and a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour is planned.
Maite Ramos commented that the plant they have in the country is the third largest in the world, 495 thousand square meters, so they have the necessary capacity to face the new railway projects of this six-year term.
Currently, they continue with the production of the convoys for the Maya Train , more than 1,300 cars for the San Francisco subway, as well as others for New Jersey and Toronto.
“There is a lot of capacity, but it is not just that, what interests us most is making trains for Mexico made in Mexico, so we have the space, we have the capacity and not only that, I think that in recent years we have all learned a lot in the railway industry, we already have knowledge and a learning curve that allows us to know how to do things and to do them better each time,” he said.
Regarding the units for the Maya Train, he indicated that the 10 diesel trains have already been delivered, although in the next few days they will be arriving at 23 units, “we are halfway through the fleet and we will continue to deliver according to the schedule and they will be finished in 2025.”
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