Chinese companies are exporting trains that were built with “foreign technology that was supplied on condition that it not be used outside of China”, Mellier said in an interview with FT. “We are starting to see Chinese companies answering tenders around the world with Chinese freight locomotives, some of them being based on transferred technology.”

Mellier told the Financial Times that he does “not think it is a good idea for other countries to open their markets to such a technology because there is no reciprocity anymore."

Alstom Transport is the second largest trainmaker in the world after Bombardier. Germany’s Siemens Transportation Systems is the world’s number three.

Last update : 03-01-2009

Keywords : Alstom, Transportation, Technology, Transfer, Exports

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