Ansaldo STS awarded signalling contracts in Turkey & UAE

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Ansaldo STS has been awarded contracts to supply signalling systems in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

The contracts are worth around €120 million, Ansaldo STS said.

In Turkey, Ansaldo STS has signed agreements with the Italian-Turkish joint venture, Salini-GCF-Kolin, to supply rail signalling, automation and telecommunications systems for the Gebze-Kosekoy stretch of high speed track between Ankara and Istanbul.

The new line will be equipped with the standard European ERTMS/ETCS level 1 signalling system, which Ansaldo STS is already supplying in Turkey under another contract.

Entry into operation is scheduled for 2014.

Also in Turkey, Ansaldo STS is to supply – via Korean multinational Hyundai-Rotem – on-board signalling systems for 80 locomotives that Turkish state rail operator TCDD plans to purchase from the Korean supplier to expand and upgrade its fleet.

The systems will comply with ERTMS/ETCS level 1 standards and final delivery is scheduled for 2013.

These two contracts strengthen the technological leadership and presence of Ansaldo STS in a strategic country with major investment already allocated to modernisation of its rail network.

In the United Arab Emirates, Ansaldo STS has been awarded a contract by the Italian- Indian joint venture created by Saipem-Tecnimont-Dodsal for the system integration of the newly constructed Shah-Habshan-Ruwais line, the first stretch of the constituent rail network owned by Etihad Rail (the UAE rail operator).

The contract is to supply signalling, automation and telecommunications systems, as well as other smaller systems for the management and control of passenger and freight traffic, for a line about 260 km long that will link the Shah industrial complex with the port of Ruwais.

The signalling system to be supplied by Ansaldo STS will comply with the ERTM/ETCS level 2 European standard.

The works will take 36 months and completion is scheduled in two phases, the first after 24 months and the second after a further 12 months.

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