Native name
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中国中车青岛四方机车车辆 股份有限公司 |
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Industry | Railway - rolling stock |
Predecessor | CSR Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. |
Founded | July 22, 2002 |
Headquarters | Qingdao, Shandong, China |
Parent | CRRC |
Website | Official Website |
CRRC Qingdao Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 中国中车青岛四方机车车辆) formerly known as CSR Qingdao Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. (renamed 29 December 2008) is a Chinese manufacturer based in Qingdao, Shandong province. It was established in 1900 by Germany and is now a subsidiary of CRRC.
Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd was established in 1998 as a joint venture between Bombardier Transportation (Canada) and Sifang Locomotive and rolling stock company limited as a company for the production of high speed trains and high quality coaches.
By 2009 it had delivered over 1000 units, including the CRH1E (Zefiro 250) high speed sleeper trains, and had secured an order for 80 CRH380D (Zefiro 380) very high speed trains in an order estimated to be worth €2.7 billion ($4 billion, 27.4billion RMB) in total.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) co-operated with CSR Sifang Co Ltd. in year 2009 to produce the C151A trains, the fourth generation MRT train for SMRT Trains, in Singapore. A total of 22 trainsets were built with 6 carriages each.
By 2010 half of the trainsets are completed, and testing was done in 2011 by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, before full delivery in December 2011. These trains now serves the North South Line & East West Line in Singapore.