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May 29, 2013 25 min

Leaner, Quicker Spanish Trains?

from The Breakfast Grille Hosted by BFM Media

Mario Oriol, Deputy CEO of Patentes Talgo SA, joins us on the breakfast grille. Talgo recently announced thier intentions to bid for the KL - Singapore HSR project. We discuss: - whether generations of family participation strengthened the business - abandoning an attempt to list in Spain in the middle of the financial crisis - Talgo's experiences outside of Europe - how they will compete with other known HSR providers who already have a presence in Malaysia - the advantages of a Talgo's duck shaped train - the RM30bn earmarked for the project - the future of Asian rail connectivity - the challenges of and how to deal with varying track gauges (width)

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