Renfe finalizes a suggestion to enter the regional line between Paris and Lyon | Companies | EUROtoday

Renfe finalizes its touchdown within the French regional railway market with its sights set on the longer term public tender to function the railway line between Paris, Dijon and Lyon, framed within the liberalization course of already begun in France for public providers, in accordance with the knowledge consulted by Europa Press.

The Spanish firm already operates within the neighboring nation, however solely at excessive pace, and with out having but been in a position to attain Paris, the capital the place it hoped to disembark in 2024, however the homologation issues of its trains, along with the obstacles that it denounces that France is placing, have delayed this touchdown no less than till 2028.

Now, the Burgundy-Franche-Comté area has began the procedures for the competitors to enter the Paris-Dijon-Lyon line, which supplies Renfe a brand new alternative to achieve town of the Eiffel Tower, on this case via regional trains.

This area already put out a primary lot to tender, but it surely was awarded to the French state operator, SNCF, with hardly any competitors, because it was the one one which ended up presenting a agency supply. According to the consulting agency that suggested the French administration in that course of, Alenium, the quantity of that first batch was near 1,000 million euros for 10 years, so the tender that Renfe will take part in may very well be round that determine.

The Spanish operator has already armed its offensive to have the ability to bid for that contract via the formalization of a number of contracts: one for monetary recommendation with KPMG, one other for technical help with the consulting agency Ingerop3 and a 3rd for the availability of mobility information between Paris and Lyon with Orange Business Digital, in accordance with the minutes consulted by Europa Press.

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The deadline for the supply of an preliminary supply will finish on April 13, with the expectation that an intermediate supply might be formalized earlier than June and a remaining supply earlier than the top of the 12 months, with a view to the award of the contract within the second half of 2027 and the beginning of operations between 2029 and 2030.

Renfe already examined the French regional enterprise when it entered the primary tender held within the Haute-France area, however which SNCF additionally gained. There are nonetheless three different heaps to be tendered in that area, which retains future choices open for the Spanish operator, additionally in Haute-France.

Renfe’s curiosity in France is a part of its internationalization technique, which mixes excessive pace with entry into typical regional providers. For now, it already operates in France and Saudi Arabia, immediately; in nations such because the Republic, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland, via its subsidiary Leo Express, or in Italy via its different subsidiary Arenaways.