Alstom, a global provider of green and smart mobility, has announced the opening of a new regional office in Riyadh to strengthen its commitment to railway development in Saudi Arabia and the region. The new office will serve as a hub for the expansion of Alstom’s operations in the Gulf and the wider region, providing marketing, tax, and finance services, as well as railway maintenance services, supplier quality development, and monitoring.
In line with Alstom’s growth, the new office will also leverage Saudi Vision 2030 to encourage regional talent development and actively build localized capability in the Kingdom.
Alstom will bring its condition-based and predictive maintenance solution, HealthHub, to Riyadh as part of this new regional office to support Saudi Arabia’s railway infrastructure innovations. The Kingdom’s HealthHub digital center will begin real-time tracking of a fleet of 748 cars for Riyadh Metro, Jeddah Airport People Mover, and Haramain High-Speed Train.
The center will be run by a team of rail mobility engineers and data scientists, and it will be able to provide advanced expertise and digital services to both Alstom and non-Alstom rolling stock, infrastructure, and signaling in and out of the Kingdom.
Alstom has had a presence in Saudi Arabia for over 70 years, and the company is pleased to be expanding its presence there. Alstom will be able to access top talent and contribute to the next chapter of the Kingdom’s development by establishing the HealthHub digital center and a new regional office in Riyadh.
HealthHub, introduced in 2014, is Alstom’s proven solution for condition-based and predictive maintenance, continuously monitoring the health of railway assets to maximize availability and reliability while lowering lifecycle costs. HealthHub predicts faults, avoiding over-maintenance, reducing the need for physical inspection, and reducing train downtime by up to 30%. HealthHub technology now monitors over 18,000 cars from 90 different fleets all over the world, including the UAE, Morocco, and Algeria.
Alstom made its first appearance in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s. Alstom has since become an important contributor to the advancement of the region’s transportation infrastructure. The most recent project in the Kingdom is the provision of an integrated Metro System for Lines 4, 5, and 6 as part of the FAST Consortium, and Line 3 as part of the ArRiyadh New Mobility Consortium (ANM). Alstom, as a member of FLOW, provides operation and maintenance services for the Riyadh Metro Lines 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Alstom supplied Talgo with the Mitrac TC 3300 propulsion equipment and Flexifloat high speed bogies for the powerheads of the 35 very high-speed trains as well as the VIP train for the 450km Haramain high-speed rail line between Mecca and Medina, and is contracted with the maintenance. Alstom is also in charge of the construction of the King Abdullah Financial District’s monorail transit system. Finally, Alstom is the supplier and operator of the turnkey Innovia APM 300 automated people mover system at Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport.
