New plan to maintain the railway activities on Alstom’s Belfort site

alstom-belfortFrance Minister of State for the Industry and Alstom CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge presented a plan to maintain the railway and industrial activities on Belfort site. The axes have been identified and constitute an alternative plan compared to the previous plan: announcements of orders, development of services activities and significant investments for the diversification of the site.
The announced orders are related to 21 TGV Euroduplex and 20 shunting locomotives in addition to the confirmation of the order for 30 Intercity trains.
Several measures will allow the development of maintenance and services activities on Belfort site. Alstom is committing to modernising the operations with the objective of employing 150 people by 2019 in these activities.
In addition, Alstom will invest, together with industrial or financial partners in the necessary diversification of the Belfort site through the production of other rail and road vehicles.

 


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