CRRC Qingdao Sifang

CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
Native name
 中车青岛四方机车车辆股份有限公司
Formerly
 CSR Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
Industry Railway - rolling stock
Founded July 22, 2002
Headquarters Qingdao, Shandong, China
Parent CRRC
Website Official Website

CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 中车青岛四方机车车辆股份有限公司; literally: "CRRC Qingdao Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd."), formerly known as CSR Qingdao Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. (renamed 29 December 2008),[1] is a Chinese rolling stock manufacturer based in Qingdao, Shandong province.

Products and services

High Speed trains

CRH2A EMU
CRH380A EMU
CR400AF EMU

Metro

Sifang-built 8A trainset for Beijing Subway Line 16

Intercity Commuter

CSR EMUs at Retiro Mitre railway station in Buenos Aires.

Light Rail Vehicle

Coach/Passenger car

Diesel Multiple Unit

R&D

Joint ventures

CRH1E

Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd

Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd was established in 1998 as a joint venture between Bombardier Transportation (Germany) and Sifang Locomotive and rolling stock company limited as a company for the production of high speed trains and high quality coaches.[9]

By 2009 it had delivered over 1000 units, including the CRH1E (Zefiro 250) high speed sleeper trains, and had secured an order for 80 CRH380D (Zefiro 380) very high speed trains in an order estimated to be worth €2.7 billion ($4 billion, 27.4billion RMB) in total.[9]

Kawasaki Heavy Industries with CRRC Sifang Co Ltd

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) co-operated with CRRC Sifang Co Ltd. in year 2009 to produce the C151A trains, the fourth generation MRT train for SMRT Trains, in Singapore. A total of 22 trainsets were built with 6 carriages each.

By 2010 half of the trainsets are completed, and testing was done in 2011 by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, before full delivery in December 2011. These trains now serves the North South Line & East West Line in Singapore.

Another 78 cars (13 trainsets) of C151A trains which in production to be delivered by 2014.[10]

In 2012, KHI and CSR Sifang will collaborate to manufacture the new 168 cars (28 trainsets) of C151B trains and will deliver from 2015 till 2017.[10][11]

An Additional 174 cars (29 trainsets) of C151B trains were ordered in 2014 and will be delivered from 2017 till 2019 and a total of 57 trains but they have been reduced to 45 set as they announced and the first trainset has delivered in 2015, Another 12 set of C151C trains are expected to be added by 2019 which ordered in 2015.

In 2013, Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) planned to sue CSR Sifang for patent infringement after their partnership was dissolved. KHI said it deeply regretted entering into the partnership. KHI subsequently dropped the action.[12]

In 2014, LTA had ordered the new 364 cars (91 trainsets with 4 cars) of T251 Trains with manufacture by KHI and CSR Sifang for future Thomson-East Coast Line and will have fully automated and driverless trains, and also the first trains in Singapore to have 5 doors on each side and each carriage, These 91 new trains will deliver from 2018 onwards.

Issues with C151A trains

On 5 July 2016, a Hong Kong Based non-profit news organization FactWire had broken the news of SMRT C151A suffering from multiple defects [13] relating to Chinese-made materials and posted the entire investigative works in YouTube.[14] and most of its claims are subsequently acknowledged by the rail operator SMRT and the transport authorities in Singapore, Land Transport Authority. The entire issue has since generated a huge amount of controversies in Hong Kong and Singapore with some rumors spreading in the Internet as well. See the main articles for more details.

References

  1. ↑ China South Locomotives & Rolling Stock Corporation Limited: 2008 annual report Archived November 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. p.10
  2. ↑ CRRC to supply Indonesian high-speed trains
  3. ↑ "CTA board approves contract to replace half of rail cars". Chicago Tribune. 10 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Qingdao opens fuel cell tram route
  5. ↑ "SEPTA awards bid for Chinese bilevel commuter cars". Trains Magazine. March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/rolling-stock/septa-double-deck-coach-contract-signed.html
  7. ↑ "Iraqi inter-city train rolled out". Railway Gazette International. 25 February 2014.
  8. ↑ "Permanent magnet straddled-type monorail train unveiled in E China". 19 May 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  9. 1 2 Bombardier Sifang Wins Contract to Build 80 Very High Speed Trains for China Market Wire, September 2009. via findarticles.com
  10. 1 2 "Both orders for Singapore Subway Train 132 LTA". 29 August 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  11. ↑ "Trains for North-South/East-West Lines and Tuas West Extension". 28 August 2012.
  12. ↑ http://fortune.com/2013/04/15/did-china-steal-japans-high-speed-train/
  13. ↑ China manufacturer for MTR secretly recalls 35 SMRT subway trains after cracks found (Report). 2016. Archived from the original on 8 July 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  14. ↑ China manufacturer secretly recalls Singapore MRT subway trains after cracks found (Report). 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.

Literature

  • Bombardier Transportation - Facilities in China - Three Manufacturing Joint Ventures (PDF), Bombardier Transportation, 2009
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