Siemens Desiro

They build the trains and the systems around them.

Velaro high-speed sets, Vectron locomotives, Desiro regional trains, rail automation and signaling, ETCS, digital station services.

Numbers.

Egypt, roughly two thousand kilometers of high-speed system, forty-one Velaro trains, ninety-four Desiro sets, forty-one Vectron locomotives, eight depots, a fifteen-year maintenance agreement, about three billion dollars initially, later expanded.

Egypt bought a rail network and a maintenance contract that outlasts most political cycles.

Then Deutsche Bahn, a consortium contract around two point eight billion euros for digital control and safety technology, DSTW and ETCS across Germany.