Heilongjiang News, China, December 13 (Zhao Chunhua, Liu Guanghua) Recently, CRRC Qiche Group has made a new breakthrough in the international market: it has signed a contract with Deutsche Bahn (DB) for the purchase of 300 sets of double-decker car transport vehicles, refreshing the group's own record of the largest truck order for the Chinese railway industry to export to the European market. This is the second cooperation between DB Company and Qiche Group after the signing of the first contract in 2018, and it also marks the establishment of a mutual trust and mutually beneficial relationship between the two sides, and the cooperation has reached a new level.
The double-decker car transport vehicle exported to Germany is the first complete vehicle independently developed by The Qi Che Group and exported to Germany in batches, and it is also the first railway wagon purchased by the German DB company outside Europe. On October 1, 2020, the European Railway Agency (hereinafter referred to as ERA) issued the model authorization certificate for the special vehicle for car transportation to the member enterprises of the Ziche Group, and on October 16 of the same year, it issued the authorization for the online operation of more than 40 groups of vehicles arriving in Europe. This is the first vehicle licensing license for a Chinese rolling stock manufacturer in ERA, and it also marks that the Laaers 560.3 minibus transport special vehicle independently developed by Qiche Group can be put into commercial operation in the European continental railway network.
The trucks developed by the member enterprises of the Ziche Group are mainly used to load a variety of models of cars, and have reached or exceeded the advanced level of similar products in Europe in terms of lightweight, low noise and operational reliability, in line with the EU railway interconnection standards and the requirements of the German railway industry, and the first batch of delivered railway trucks have been put into commercial operation. (End)
【Source: Heilongjiang, China News Network】