Focus on high-speed: a unique portfolio and ouststanding track record

For us, it is about transforming challenges into opportunities and new adventures for everybody: customers, suppliers and our colleagues working all together. Especially for high-speed, we have a bright future considering the significant investments planned to develop the railway sector further. Today, over three billion passengers travel on high-speed trains each year and 563 km of high-speed lines are currently under construction in North America, and approximately 3,000 km in the Middle East. Across Europe, the EU aims to double high-speed rail traffic by 2030, constructing 2,400 km of new high-speed lines. High-speed trains are the most sustainable way to connect capitals and countries as they have lower land occupation than roads, the lowest energy consumption and the lowest CO2 emissions, compared with cars or air. Let's not forget that it is also the safest means of transportation.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the essential role played by transport and the social, health and economic costs when free movement of people, goods and services is severely constrained.

In the context of the recovery from this crisis, mobility is called to answer a "build back better" mission, to which high-speed rail will contribute, with trains that are available and affordable, healthier, more accessible for people with reduced mobility or disabilities, and highly digitalised to offer passengers an immersive experience.