CRRC Qingdao Sifang
CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 中车青岛四方机车车辆股份有限公司; lit. '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.
Native name | 中车青岛四方机车车辆股份有限公司 |
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Formerly | CSR Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. |
Industry | Railway - rolling stock |
Founded | July 22, 2002 |
Headquarters | Qingdao, Shandong , China |
Parent | CRRC |
Website | Official Website |
Products and services
High Speed trains
- China Railway
- CRH1 as a joint venture between Bombardier Transportation
- CRH2 as a partly joint venture between Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI)
- CRH380A
- Fuxing Hao Class CR400AF
- MTR Corporation
- id: Kereta Cepat Indonesia–China (KCIC) [2]
Metro
- Beijing Subway
- Guangzhou Metro
- Line 4, Line 5 and Line 6 in a joint venture with Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- Zhengzhou Metro
- MTR Corporation (Hong Kong)
- MTR Urban Lines Vision Train
- MTR Lantau Airport Railway Vision Train
- Chengdu Metro
- Shenyang Metro
- Tianjin Metro
- Singapore Mass Rapid Transit
- Qingdao Metro
- Chongqing Rail Transit
- Chicago Transit Authority
- 7000 series (CTA)[3]
Light Rail Vehicle
- Qingdao Tram
- zh:青岛有轨电车 as a joint venture with Škoda Transportation[4]
Coach/Passenger car
- China Railway
- zh:中国铁路25T型客车 as a partly joint venture between Bombardier Transportation
- Coaches for Turkmenistan
- SEPTA
- Multi-level cars for SEPTA Regional Rail lines[5][6]
Diesel Multiple Unit
- Costa Rica Interurban Line
- Iraqi Republic Railways[7]
- Sri Lanka Railways
- Sri Lanka Railways S9
- Sri Lanka Railways S10
- Sri Lanka Railways S12
- Sri Lanka Railways S14 & S14A
R&D
- manufacture of permanent magnet straddled-type monorail train[8]
- manufacture of suspension-type monorail train[9]
- manufacture of bi-level cars
Joint ventures
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. This joint venture includes a new IS development named JOSS (joint venture operating system support)[10]
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.[10]
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.[11]
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.[11][12]
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.[13]
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 [14] relating to Chinese-made materials and posted the entire investigative works in YouTube.[15] 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.
Astra Vagoane with CRRC Qingdao Sifang
On 9 september 2020 Bucharest City Hall sent to the Association Astra Vagoane (Romania) - CRRC Qingdao Sifang (China) a "Communication on the outcome of the award procedure for Purchase of 100 trams. By this address, the mentioned association is notified that the winner of the procurement procedure has been designated and that it will be informed of the date and time when the contract will be signed."[16][17] [18]
The town hall will pay 840 million Romanian lei (200 million USD) for 100 ASTRA trams.
References
- China South Locomotives & Rolling Stock Corporation Limited: 2008 annual report Archived November 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine p.10
- CRRC to supply Indonesian high-speed trains
- "CTA board approves contract to replace half of rail cars". Chicago Tribune. 10 March 2016.
- Qingdao opens fuel cell tram route
- "SEPTA awards bid for Chinese bilevel commuter cars". Trains Magazine. March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
- http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/rolling-stock/septa-double-deck-coach-contract-signed.html
- "Iraqi inter-city train rolled out". Railway Gazette International. 25 February 2014.
- "Permanent magnet straddled-type monorail train unveiled in E China". 19 May 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- "CRRC Sifang rolls out suspension monorail prototype". 25 July 2017. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- Bombardier Sifang Wins Contract to Build 80 Very High Speed Trains for China Market Wire, September 2009. via findarticles.com
- "Both orders for Singapore Subway Train 132 LTA". 29 August 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- "Trains for North-South/East-West Lines and Tuas West Extension". 28 August 2012.
- http://fortune.com/2013/04/15/did-china-steal-japans-high-speed-train/
- 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.
- China manufacturer secretly recalls Singapore MRT subway trains after cracks found (Report). 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
- https://www.orange.ro/info/news/mediafax/article/2980109
- https://romania.europalibera.org/a/astra-vagoane-c%C4%83l%C4%83tori-a-c%C3%A2%C8%99tigat-licita%C8%9Bia-pentru-tramvaiele-din-bucure%C8%99ti/30827750.html
- https://www.stiripesurse.ro/asocierea-crrc-qingdao-sifang-astra-vagoane-calatori-favorita-la-licitatia-pentru-noile-rame-electrice_1384883.html
Literature
- Bombardier Transportation - Facilities in China - Three Manufacturing Joint Ventures (PDF), Bombardier Transportation, 2009
External links
- CRRC Qingdao Sifang
- http://mothership.sg/2016/07/we-summarise-wth-is-going-on-with-mrt-train-cars-being-shipped-back-to-china/
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