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Leaner, Quicker Spanish Trains?

Leaner, Quicker Spanish Trains?

The Breakfast Grille

May 29, 201325m 16s

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Show Notes

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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