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Japanese company Hitachi will form a technological partnership with an Indian state-owned company as part of efforts to win orders for the South Asian country’s first bullet train railroad . The tie-up between the Japanese conglomerate and BEML, one of India’s top suppliers of subway train cars, could eventually lead to local production as a joint venture. The governments of Japan and India have already agreed to adopt Japanese Shinkansen bullet train technology for a high-speed railway spanning roughly 500km between Mumbai and the western state of Gujarat. Bidding for the project by India’s national high-speed rail company is expected to start soon. Hitachi, with a tack record of building bullet train cars, is seen as a strong candidate for supplying them. The project is estimated to cost around 1.8 trillion yen ($16.4 billion). Construction is expected to start this year , with the service likely to launch in 2023. A number of Japanese c...

Japanese company Hitachi will form a technological partnership with an Indian state-owned company as part of efforts to win orders for the South Asian country’s first bullet train railroad . The tie-up between the Japanese conglomerate and BEML, one of India’s top suppliers of subway train cars, could eventually lead to local production as a joint venture. The governments of Japan and India have already agreed to adopt Japanese Shinkansen bullet train technology for a high-speed railway spanning roughly 500km between Mumbai and the western state of Gujarat. Bidding for the project by India’s national high-speed rail company is expected to start soon. Hitachi, with a tack record of building bullet train cars, is seen as a strong candidate for supplying them. The project is estimated to cost around 1.8 trillion yen ($16.4 billion). Construction is expected to start this year , with the service likely to launch in 2023. A number of Japanese c...