BST To Provide Maintenance For 32 Chinese HSTs

On 19 January 2021, Bombardier Transportation announced that its Chinese joint venture, Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd. (BST), has been awarded a contract by China State Railway Group to provide maintenance service for 32 BST-built high-speed trains.

The contract is worth around 1.24 billion CNY (159 million EUR) and includes Classes CRH1A-A, CRH1A, CRH1E and CRH380D (280 cars in total) for different levels of maintenance, which will be completed by the end of 2021.

In the last two years, BST has provided maintenance work for more than 1,200 cars of Chinese high-speed trains.