Basque Companies Run Out of Options in the Largest Purchase of AVE Trains

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The tender prioritizes the speed of circulation at 350 km/h and leaves the Japanese Hitachi better positioned than Talgo, CAF or other European firms

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The luck is cast this Tuesday at the close of the deadline to submit offers in the largest railway contract of the decade. Renfe seeks to acquire between 30 and 40 new high speed trains, a tender that, adding the maintenance, can amount to 4,100 million euros. The public operator, struck by the lack of fleet and a demand in maximums that exceeds 35 million passengers annually, needs material urgently to stop the push of Ouigo and Iryo. The objec…