Alstom in negotiations to run double deck trains on the Channel Tunnel Route

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Alstom, as the world’s second largest train tries to take advantage of the growing European railway requirement, in high speed, high speed, double deck trains with a double deck tunnel.

CEO Henry Poupart-Lafarge added that the company’s trains can increase traffic from London to Europe, Avelia Horizo ​​can pass through the Undersea Channel Tunnel.

“There are many advantages of the double Decker train. A very fast train with the highest price and the highest power per seat,” he said.

New trains can work more than 300 km / h and Alstom Delivery has been repeatedly delayed and unexpected French railway operator signed contracts to submit the unexpected French railway operator to SNCF.

Any new train running in Eurostar services should be approved by the operator, and a process that can take a few years. Trains working from London to Europe will also be approved by regulators and comply with the strict safety rules of the channel tunnel.

The comments are declining in Europe and new providers are coming as they are trying to compete with Eurostar. Last weekBritish and Swiss governments planned to promote direct services between London and Switzerland.

Poupart-Lafarge refused to comment on commercial discussions, but “such an order year.” He added that the work “mostly talks to everyone” and trains are designed to work on all major European lines.

“We can offer (train) through the tunnel,” he said. “Whether Eurostar or other competitors, we will see.”

Railway providers, including Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and including Italian state-owned railway In addition, Matinland is examining new services to protest the 30-year monopoly from Eurostar to Europe.

Providing newly certified trains to pass the channel tunnel, the proposed new applicants are one of the largest challenges of industrial experts, he said.

Alstom said that France signed an 850 million euro agreement to provide and maintain the 12th part of the 12th part of the 12th part of the 12-year-old section of the double scenery trains, signing an 850 million euros agreement and signed an 850 million euro agreement.

Poupart-Lafarge said that the modernization of the European railway infrastructure and the modernization of increased traffic will benefit the company in the coming years. Germany has a 3.6 billion euros agreement to provide the latest order growth, including the U.S. S-Bahn Rhein Rhein Rhein Rheinland network in Germany.

In Europe, strong demand helped to inform about March 31 about 19.8 billion euros, 4.7 percent increase and analysts calculations.

The case also lowered the debt of 3 billion euros in the late March 2024 in the next year. Last year, the company was shaken in 2021, the canadian company, which inherited from the bombardier, slower, more slowly, and the flow of money related to problems.

Started a € 1bn capital increases In May, he sold a German railway factory that sells a German railway company to reduce its debt and sell a German railway company to a defensive company and selling a German railway company to defense and setting up tanks.

Poupart-Lafarge said the debt problems “seemed like water under the bridge,” the company added that the company would not want to sell the section again.

However, the company will not pay dividends for the financial year of 2024-25, he said he would do it when the Poupart-Lafarge was “in a neutral cash”.