China’s rail experts off to Berlin show
2012-06-21 15:06:56For the first time the two largest Chinese manufacturers of locomotives and rolling stock, CSR and CNR, will be exhibiting at a trade fair for transport technology, which takes place, 18 to 21 September in Berlin.
Compared with the previous event, the number of Chinese companies will increase by 14%.
Trade visitors will be able to find CSR and CNR in Hall 9, where the China Academy of Railway Sciences and other exhibitors will also be represented, providing information about the latest innovations from the country’s railway industry.
The China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corporation (CSR) and CNR Corporation, the equivalent company in the north of China, are considered the world’s strongest manufacturers of locomotives and rolling stock.
Yang Xiong-Jing, Manager for Global Business Development for CNR said: “We are making use of this fair to study the market and we are looking forward to presenting our rail vehicles to the world. High speed trains, powerful locomotives, metro rolling stock and freight wagons – we are presenting our complete range of vehicles at InnoTrans 2012.”
China is currently in talks with the Thai government to build a high-speed train that will link Bangkok and Chiang Mai and ultimately Yunnan province in China through either Laos or Myanmar.
The agreement to build the rail line through Laos faltered over terms that observers said would give China use of a strip of land 5 km wide on each side of the rail line. Opposition to the conditions and China’s decision to scale back rail expansion resulted in the Lao project being postponed indefinitely.
InnoTrans is the leading international trade fair for transport technology in Berlin. More than 2,400 exhibitors from 46 countries will be presenting their products to around 100,000 trade visitors from more than 100 countries.