The three states of California, Illinois and Maryland have ordered a total of 34 diesel-electric locomotives from Siemens. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) ordered 14 locomotives to serve the Pacific Surfliner Amtrak route along the southern California coast from San Luis Obispo to San Diego via Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) will expand its fleet with twelve locomotives. And the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) has ordered eight locomotives for the first time for the MARC commuter rail line that serves the cities of Baltimore, Brunswick, Frederick, Martinsburg and Washington D.C. as well as Harford County. With this order, Caltrans, IDOT and MTA have called up further locomotives from the framework contract signed in March 2014. This contract foresees the procurement of up to 222 locomotives for passenger service by a number of federal states. The locomotives will be built at the Siemens rail manufacturing plant in Sacramento, California.
- For the first time, maximum number of points in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
- CDP praises Siemens for high transparency of its environmental reporting
- Signal for COP 21: Business must take the lead in climate protection
For the first time, Siemens has achieved the highest possible score in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the world’s largest climate-protection survey. For the transparency of its reporting on the opportunities and risks associated with climate change, the company received 100 (2014: 99) out of 100 possible points. In addition, Siemens’ efforts to achieve energy efficiency and cut CO2 emissions enabled the company to reach Band A, the highest performance range. As a result, the company is also included in the Carbon Performance Leadership Index.
Atos, The Gores Group and Siemens have reached an agreement for Atos to acquire Unify, the number three world leader of integrated communication solutions. With this acquisition Atos intends to create a unique integrated proposition for unified communications and real time capabilities enhancing social collaboration, digital transformation, and business performance of its clients. The transaction is subject to employee representative's bodies' information and consultation and the approvals of the regulatory and antitrust authorities. Closing is expected in the first calendar quarter of 2016.
HTM (Haagsche Tramweg-Maatschappij) has ordered 40 trams from Siemens for the network of the city of The Hague. They are intended to replace part of the existing high-floor vehicles of type GTL 8. In March 2014, HTM ordered other 20 Avenio trams.
On November 2, 2015, the Dutch tram operator HTM, started the passenger services with brand new Siemens trams in The Hague, Netherlands. The first Avenio will run on line 2.
- Global IT agreement expanded by €3.23 billion with committed minimum volumes to reach 8.73 billion by end 2021
- Joint R&D programs and cooperation in digitalization enhanced
- Siemens extends lock-up shareholder commitment to Atos until 2020
Following a strategic review that was launched in July 2015, Atos and Siemens announced today that they have decided to further strengthen their global alliance. The two companies have decided to extend their existing IT agreement, to further develop their joint business cooperation and commercial initiatives and to enhance their existing R&D programs. Furthermore Siemens will extend its lock-up shareholder commitment in Atos until September 30, 2020. Siemens is the largest shareholder of Atos, holding 12.5 million shares or 12% of the current capital of Atos. In a separate transaction, Atos announced today its intent to acquire Unify, the number three world leader of integrated communications solutions.
For Dutch tram operator HTM, today marks the start of passenger services with brand new Siemens trams in The Hague, Netherlands. The first Avenio will run on line 2, which connects the western suburb of Kraayenstein with Leidschendam in the northeast via The Hague's main station. The Siemens trams will also gradually progress to operating on lines 1, 9, 15 and 17, with test runs already being conducted on the next route earmarked for Avenio, line 11. HTM has ordered a total of 60 Avenio trams from Siemens.
- Growth opportunities in the international market
- Additional factory to open in 2018
Siemens is investing in the growth market for urban public transport and is building a new assembly factory for trams in the Turkish city of Gebze, near Istanbul. By localizing manufacturing and the supply chain in Turkey, the company expects even better chances for winning tenders as well as substantial cost advantages for international orders. The rail industry is increasingly depending on international production networks. This is particularly true for the tram business, which is facing changed competitive conditions. Siemens is already cooperating with local manufacturing partners in Turkey on a project basis. The first vehicles are scheduled to be produced in the new factory beginning in 2018. Siemens is investing around 30 million euros in the new facility.
- Train care facility "Three Bridges" in the London region
- Investment of around 400 million Euros in two depots by Siemens
- Predictive maintenance and servicing will be the key factor
Today, British Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin formally opened the new Siemens and Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) train care facility in Crawley, West Sussex. Purpose-built for the new Thameslink trains, the "Three Bridges" depot was constructed around 30 kilometers south of London. Siemens is investing around 400 million Euros in the construction of two depots. A second similar hi-tech train care facility is currently under construction in Hornsey, to the north of London, and is on track to be completed in summer 2016.
- New control center covers around 3,400 square meters.
- Monitors over 600 trains and up to 500,000 passengers every day
Siemens builds a new state-of-the art control center for centralized rail traffic management called the Gauteng Nerve Centre (GNC) in the province of Gauteng, which is operational and will start with the changeover of stations from January. The new operations control center now accommodates the existing 35 control rooms in one place. The GNC constantly monitors each and every one of the over 600 trains in operation every day, and can immediately respond to any operating failures, accidents and other incidents. Siemens has been upgrading the signaling systems for the entire railway network of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) since 2011.
- Further ten Vectron AC and eleven Vectron MS
- Three locomotives have just been delivered
- MRCE owns 56 Vectron locomotives
The locomotive leasing and service company Mitsui Rail Capital Europe B.V. (MRCE) has ordered 21 additional Vectron locomotives from Siemens. Ten of these locomotives are of the AC version for operation in Germany and Austria. The other eleven locomotives are equipped as multi-system locomotives and will be operated in Germany, Austria and Italy. All Vectron locomotives will be manufactured in the Munich-Allach locomotive production plant. The first three locomotives were pre-produced and have already been handed over to MRCE by Siemens. With this new order MRCE will now own a fleet of 56 Vectron locomotives.