Alstom to renovate 23 locomotives for Akiem
French multinational company Alstom has secured a contract from Akiem to carry out the mid-life overhaul of 23 BB 36000 locomotives to improve their longevity and reliability. The new contract follows an initial agreement signed in April last year to conduct mid-life overhaul of seven BB 36000 trains, which were operating in Morocco. The locomotives are expected to operate for additional 15 years following the overhaul works. Akiem group president Fabien Rochefort said: “This technical and industrial collaboration with Alstom has allowed us to define a programme of overhauls in line with our commercial ambitions for this fleet, which we intend to deploy in France as well as in the France-Italy and central European corridors.” The scope of the maintenance work includes bogie overhauls and obsolescence monitoring, as well as the repair and modernisation of driver"s cabins. Alstom’s service team at the company"s Belfort site will carry out the tas...