Rolls-Royce Power Systems and China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) signed an agreement to continue their collaboration. Under the agreement, CRRC will continue to consider MTU engines from Rolls-Royce as drive solutions in its locomotives and diesel railcars. The two companies also agreed to collaborate on future power delivery solutions, including hybrid drives and gas engines.
“This strategic partnership agreement is a major step forward in strengthening our successful collaboration with Rolls-Royce Power Systems and MTU,” Dayong Chen, General Manager for International Business at CRRC said.
The agreement references, in particular, the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, the infrastructure plan of China to expand and enhance its connections with Asia, Europe and Africa with the aim of stimulating and improving the movement of goods. To achieve this, China is looking to invest the equivalent of hundreds of billions of euros in the infrastructure of many countries in these regions, and CRRC is playing a key role in this.
“We are proud that we are consistently convincing CRRC, one of the major players in the global rail market, of the quality of our drive solutions. Our close working relationship has been established firmly in recent years, and this agreement puts it on a new footing – something which is going to benefit both partners, and our customers as well,” Andreas Schell, CEO of Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG, said.
Until now, under the collaboration between the two companies, CRRC ordered around 500 MTU Series 4000 engines for locomotives used by customers in New Zealand, Argentina and South Africa.
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