The Economics, Finance and Employment Ministry The General Directorate for Business Enterprises (DGE) is tasked with developing an environment favourable to the competitiveness of industrial firms and of the related service sector. The DGE, working under the authority of the Economics, Finance and Employment Ministry, is responsible for framing and implementing French industrial policy. With support from the network of Regional Directorates for Infrastructure, Research and the Environment (DRIRE), which reports to it, the DGE is the main correspondent for industrial companies in particular and for the related service sector. French For more information, please visit www.industrie.gouv.fr or www.competitivite.gouv.fr Railway Industries The French Agency for the International Business Development (UBIFRANCE), operating under DGE authority, lies at the heart of the foreign-trade support structure. As such UBIFRANCE, working in close synergy with the various French Embassies’ trade missions around the world, provides a full range of products and support services to help French companies develop their business activities in foreign markets. THE PATHS OF For more information, please visit www.ubifrance.fr EXCELLENCE Invest in France Agency (IFA) promotes and facilitates international investment in France. The IFA network operates worldwide, with offices in France, as well as in North America, Asia and Europe. IFA works in partnership with regional development agencies to offer international investors business opportunities and customized services all over France. For more information, please visit www.investinfrance.org The French Railway Industries Association (FIF) The Association regroups some fifty enterprises and represents the full diversity of railway industrial players. With a membership including rolling-stock manufacturers, engineering consultants, railway equipment suppliers, track and signalling companies, design contractors and again equipment testing agencies, the Association encompasses the entire railway industrial chain. As part of the service package developed for its members, the Association: • promotes and advances the interests of the sector in and outside France, • lobbies public authorities, transport executives, railway companies and infrastructure owners on behalf of the sector, • provides an interface for railway industries at European level, • organises the collection and dissemination of statistical data for the whole sector. In 2006 French railway industries posted an aggregate turnover amounting to e 3.5 billion (home market: e 2.15 billion; export market: e 1.1 billion). The sector employed a workforce of some 16,000 in 2006. For more information, please visit: www.industrie-ferroviaire.com or www.railway-industry.com Graphics : Alstom Transport: Design & Styling (p. 15), J. Goudstikker (p. 18), P. Sautelet (p. 22, 25, 26), M. Spera (p. 19), Toma / C. Sasso (p. 27), Purple / M. Sfreddo (p. 26) - AREP: Photographe Imagechina (p. 17, 21) - Bombardier (p. 13, 24) - A. Bradfer (p. 13) - La Vie du Rail (p. 7, 8) - Photorail: M. Carémantrant (p. 9), N. Giambi (p. 4,5), C. Recoura (cover page, p. 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 21, 23, 24) - Siemens TS (p. 18) - Thales (p. 20), Valdunes (p. 25). Editorial contents: François Dumont (LVDR), Production: DGE/UBIFRANCE – Copyright DGE /UBI- FRANCE. All rights reserved. Printing: Point 44 – January 2008. Conception: EMZ Edition. Graphic design: Henri Latzarus. Translation: European Rail Consultancy Ltd ? 308 Million ? 627Million Overseas in 2006 the infrastructure sector produced a e 308 million turnover Rolling& tractive stock exports (e 296 million in 2005), and the in 2006 amounted to e 627 million equipment supplying sector e 134 million (against e 604 million in 2005) (e 121 million in 2005) . In France, 2006 saw • the delivery of 51 passenger/freight locomotives, • sustained levels of TGV deliveries with 12 trains, • the delivery of 140 regional trains, • the delivery of 92 AGC trains, • the delivery of 55 tramways. +8% Home sales of rolling- stock in 2006 hit new peaks with e 752 million (+ 8% on the 2005 results) In 2007, +18.7% French railway industries In 2006 urban/outer-suburban rolling- posted record orders worth e 10 billion stocksales in Asia staged a remarkable comeback(+ 18 % against + 8.5% in 2005) Source: FIF ith a turnover of e 3.3 billion in 2006 courtesy of a buoyant domestic France, undisputed CONTENTS market generating a record e 2.2 billion and exports contributing the second railway I. A UNIQUE KNOW-HOW BASE remaining e 1.1 billion, French railway industries could not be in finer shape. • High speeds, the perfect showcase for railway industries 7 W power in Europe • The new faces of regional Tramways are back in fashion, high levels of investments are being poured into regional and urban transport 8 train-fleet renewal and the high-speed rail network is expanding. The dynamic development • Boomtime for public transport 8 • The challenge of sustainable experienced by the railways in France over the past period has benefited virtually all the development 9 sector stakeholders. More importantly the reform process set in motion in the rail sector has II. FROM INFRASTRUCTURE TO ROLLING STOCK made it easier for new players to enter the market. French know-how and expertise are in high • Records: an index of technological progress demand the world over, whether in terms of rolling stock, train operations or architecture. 11 • Automated metros: Rail-sector expansion opens-up exciting new opportunities in France and abroad. French technology at its very best 12 • Innovative regional and urban train concepts 13 • New technologies for rail freight 14 • Research & Development: an absolute priority 15 • The dynamism of the I-TRANS cluster 15 III. ON THE TRAIL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CONTRACTS • Engineering consultancy champions 17 • Urban rolling stock 18 • TGV from Spain to South Korea 19 • The complete operating know-how package 20 • Architecture and design 21 IV. RAILWAY TRADES: THREE WORLD-CLASS MANUFACTURERS AND A HOST OF PLAYERS • Alstom, world leader in the high-speed rail field 23 • Bombardier, largest railway manufacturing centre in France 24 • Siemens (STS), top automatic- systems specialist 24 • Equipment suppliers 25 4 (Paris/Brussels – London) and Thalys High speeds, the (Paris–Brussels–Cologne/Amsterdam) has perfect showcase for prepared the groundwork for this to happen. Indeed, the Railteam alliance created in 2007 railway industries between key European high-speed rail operators A unique aims not only to facilitate high-speed rail travel for French railway industries draw their strength from a European and other users, but also to offer unique know-how base base that has been seamless train journeys in the fairly near future. developed over the years, and has been further consolidated during the past twenty-five years know-how base LOND0N through rolling-stock investment and other BRUSSELS AMSTERDAM France has played a trail-blazing role in the development of high-speed rail initiatives designed to improve transport conditions LILLE COLOGNE for the travelling public. The TGV concept is REIMS and its TGV network today radiates into Northern Europe. On the regional acclaimed worldwide. High-speed lines (HSL) in METZ France now aggregate 1,893 km in length (total transport scene too, the revolution is well and truly under way as borne out PARIS national network size: roughly 30, 000 km). Top NANCY STRASBOURG Le Mans by the launch of new-generation trains and the novel approaches adopted speeds on the HSL network are generally in the RENNES 300kmh range, rising to 320kmh on the Eastern Dijon Bâle Zurich HSL. The British High-Speed One line used by Tours by transport modes. The rail sector is clearly well-placed to meet the NANTES Berne Eurostar services and the Belgian HSL lines form Lausanne Poitiers challenge of sustainable development. part of this system and extend the French HSL network seamlessly northwards. High-speed line High-speed line LYON High speeds have simply transformed the French (building in progress) Chambéry High-speed line (project) railway landscape, with attractively-designed new BORDEAUX stations sprouting along the various high-speed routes, so attesting to the vitality of today’s Nice Bayonne railways. The Mediterranean-HSL and Eastern-HSL Montpellier TOULOUSE routes, for example, are dotted with impressive MARSEILLE PERPIGNAN engineering structures that blend gracefully into the surrounding environment. Source: La Vie du Rail, TGV technical success goes hand-in-hand with December 2007 resounding commercial success. SNCF, now a major player as a service company, has invested in a • A top-performing whole range of high-performance tools, including high-speed rail network for example www.sncf.com, the leading French commercial website. This TGV success story would SNCF today boasts the largest high-speed rolling-stock have been impossible but for the deployment of a fleet in Europe (430 trainsets), operating services to seat-reservation and yield-management system some 200 destinations and carrying over 270,000 pas- (designed to manage available capacity) modelled sengers each day. Trainsets recently rolled-out include on a software package developed for the airline the 105 Duplex units deployed primarily on the busiest passenger corridor (Paris – South East –Mediterranean). industry, which has enabled TGV trains consistently SNCF, as the leading passenger transport operator in to post a mean occupancy rate of some 75%!