Japan: Shikansen country entrusts railways to Italian Mermec

(ANSA) - TOKYO, MAY 28 - Japan, the home of Shikanen ultra-fast trains and one of the most advanced and efficient railway networks in the world, entrusts the services for the safety and advanced diagnostics of its railways and underground to Mermec, an Italian specialist company, with agreements worth over 20 million euros.

    The agreement was signed today in the Italian Embassy of Tokyo in the presence of Ambassador Gianluigi Benedetti, together with some of the major players on the railway scene, Mitsubishi Electric, Sumitomo Corporation, Mitsui Nco, HitachiHitech, and the Japanese financial and industrial sector, including the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) and the Asian Development Bank (Adb).

"We started in 2015 in the country of the Rising Sun and today we sign four important contracts which, both in Japan and together with Japanese partners outside Japan, place Mermec at the center of technological innovation in the field of railway safety", the vice president of affairs told ANSA. internationals of Mermec, AngeloPetrosillo.

    "Mermec realizes systems for the measurement of infrastructures that serve both safety and improvement of maintenance, continues Petrosillo:" Well all this in Japan is required of us both by the main railways, 4 out of 7 - and by the main metro, for example in Osaka, as well as main technological partners ". A presence that has been consolidated over the years and that has borne fruit for the company from Monopoli, Puglia, which is part of the Angel group, which serves 10 of the most advanced high-speed rail transport services in globally, with the only exception of China: "We were literally put to the test by the most demanding customer, the JR-West in Japan, which operates the Shinkansen, the 'admiral' train of the Japanese railways:we passed this test and today JR-West is our main sponsor as well as partner ".

    "We will continue to go abroad with Jaica and Adb's Japanese partners and foundations, as we have already done in India and the Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan, through a series of scenarios that we have been developing in recent weeks", concluded Petrosillo.

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