Transportation in France
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FRANCE, 2017/09/16
At the same time as it comes to the aviation industry, new technologies and manufacturing techniques have been mounting a silent revolution in the new generation of commercial twin-aisle aircraft: the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350. Both these aircraft contain around 50% of CFRP composites, as opposed to their previous iterations where aluminium alloys had dominated.
This explains why, at the same time as Boeing and Airbus introduced these two crafts several years ago, most experts thought that the next generation of planes would be made out of composites, a trend that would again expand to include smaller jets – but as turns out, they were wrong.
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FRANCE, 2016/08/31
Dubai's transport authority announced Wednesday it had awarded a French-led consortium a $2.88 billion arrangement to extend its metro network to the site of the Expo 2020 world trade equitable.
The consortium, led by France's Alstom Conglomerate and as well inclunding Spain's Acciona and Turkey's Gulermak, will construct a 15 kilometre (nine mile) extension to the site of the equitable, a statement said.
Alstom will supply 50 trains, 15 of them for the new extension and 35 to upgrade existing services, the statement said.
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FRANCE, 2014/12/05
His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden, were given a guided tour of the A350 XWB Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse as part of their official three day National visit of France. The King and Queen were accompanied by the Swedish Minister for Employment, Ylva Johansson, the Swedish Minister for Energy, Ibrahim Baylan, the French Secretary of National Carole Delga, in charge of Trade and in presence of Swedish and French ambassadors.
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FRANCE, 2014/05/25
Due to a miscalculation in ordering new trains that are 20 centimeters wider than French platforms, 50 million euros will be needed to adapt 1,300 platforms out of a total of 8,700 of all French network.
The mistake is an economic disaster and ''comically tragic'', said the transport undersecretary. Environment Minister Segolene Royal warned that ''those that made the mistake will pay''.
The matter initially surfaced in the satirical weekly Canard Enchainé, and almost instantly those responsible were forced to admit it and try to explain. France's national rail operator SNCF is in charge of the trains, while the RFF is tasked with railway infrastructure.
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FRANCE, 2013/06/19
Italy's rail technology group Ansaldo STS announced Wednesday that it had won new contracts in Algeria and France.
The arrangement in Algeria is worth 40 million euros and covers the design, supply, installation and implementation of ERMTS signalling systems for the new, 130-km cargo and passenger rail line linking Oued Tlelat and Tlemcen in north-western Algeria.
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FRANCE, 2012/07/10
