Renfe asks Talgo for the top of the individual chargeable for the upkeep of the trains with faults | Economy | EUROtoday

The steady breakdowns within the new Avril S106 trains, which Talgo delivered to Renfe in May, could value the job of the individual answerable for their upkeep. As Renfe has confirmed to this newspaper, the general public firm has requested the Spanish practice producer “formally to dismiss” Javier Fernández Sánchez Del Peral, normal supervisor of Tarvia, an organization managed by Renfe and Talgo and answerable for the upkeep of the brand new trains. Renfe has handed this on to Talgo’s CEO, Gonzalo Urquijo, with out going by way of the board of Tarvia, an organization of which the practice producer owns 51%, whereas the general public railway firm has the remaining 49%. According to sources acquainted with the matter, the set off was the incident on Monday final week wherein 494 folks had been trapped with out electrical energy inside one among these trains.

For its half, Talgo has assured that “Renfe has not asked Talgo as a shareholder or the board of directors of Tarvia to dismiss any member of the management of Tarvia.” The practice producer, in flip, has indicated that “in any case, any decision in this regard should be raised in the board of directors of Tarvia, which is the body empowered to make any decision of the company.”

In this fashion, the open conflict between Renfe and Talgo provides a brand new chapter after the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puente, assured final week that the aforementioned breakdown in an Avlo that coated the route between Valencia and Madrid was “the incident that was the last straw”. In complete, Renfe estimates the variety of incidents involving the Avril S106 at 479 since they had been launched on Spanish tracks on May 21, of which 28 brought about delays of greater than an hour and 14 required the rescue or switch of passengers. For the incident on Monday August 5 alone, Renfe estimates that it might face the fee of 390,000 euros in compensation for the 11,768 passengers on the 34 providers affected by delays.

The public firm is due to this fact contemplating submitting monetary claims in opposition to Talgo, which might be added to the 166 million euros that Renfe is demanding for the delay of just about two years within the supply of those trains. Specifically, the general public railway firm is demanding 116 million euros from Talgo for breach of contract plus 50 million for lack of earnings. In addition, on 1 April it filed a declare for 80,000 euros for every further day of delay within the supply of the trains, of which Renfe obtained the primary ten items on 11 April. These started to function in Asturias and Galicia a month later, and had been step by step joined by a part of the remainder of the trains that Talgo owed Renfe. Today, the general public firm has 12 Avril S106 trains in operation, one other ten stopped and eight trains are but to be delivered, of which Renfe claims to don’t have any data. They presently make up 9% of Renfe's High Speed ​​and Long Distance fleet, and have a punctuality fee of 40.72%, in comparison with 76.2% for that service as a complete.

In an interview with National Radio of Spain which came about on Monday, Puente indicated that the occasions of final week had been unacceptable, for which he apologized whereas firming down his actions in opposition to Talgo and guaranteed that it “has gotten its act together” for every week and has appointed a technician for every convoy, which has resulted in no main incidents having occurred this final week and, after all, none on the extent of the one suffered on the Chamartín station in Madrid.

In flip, Puente recalled that the acquisition of those trains was determined in a young resolved in 2016, in the course of the PP Government, wherein Talgo gained with a proposal 43% cheaper than the tender worth. Initially, Alstom, Siemens, CAF, the winner Talgo and Bombardier participated on this tender, though the latter withdrew earlier than the decision of the identical. Talgo was the most effective rated each technically and economically with a practice that was a prototype at the moment. The contract contemplated the supply of 15 trains and their upkeep for 30 years, though Renfe might lengthen it to 30 trains and 40 years of upkeep, which was what it lastly did. In addition, the tender established the creation of a joint firm between Talgo and Renfe for the upkeep of the trains, which was established on April 29, 2021 underneath the title Tarvia. “It was a very risky decision,” mentioned Puente in an interview with public radio, in relation to the acquisition of the trains from Talgo, with which Renfe saved 1.15 billion euros.

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