KSA Business: Alstom opens regional office in Riyadh; focus on rail development – Gulf Digital News

KSA Business: Alstom opens regional office in Riyadh; focus on rail development – Gulf Digital News

Alstom, a global leader in green and smart mobility, has announced the opening of its new regional office in Saudi capital Riyadh. 

It will serve as a hub for the development of Alstom’s operations across the Gulf and the wider region, providing marketing, tax and finance services to the region, in addition to railway maintenance services, supplier quality development and monitoring.

Within this new regional office, Alstom will bring its condition-based and predictive maintenance solution, HealthHub to Riyadh to support the railway infrastructure innovations in Saudi Arabia. 

The kingdom’s HealthHub digital centre will start monitoring a fleet of 748 cars in real-time for Riyadh Metro, Jeddah Airport People Mover, and Haramain High-Speed Train.

According to Alstom, The centre will be operated by a team of rail mobility engineers and data scientists with an opportunity to provide advanced expertise and digital services to both Alstom and non-Alstom rolling stock, infrastructure and signalling in and outside of the Kingdom.

It will also serve to further leverage Saudi Vision 2030 to encourage regional talent development, and actively build localized capability in the Kingdom, in alignment with Alstom’s growth.

"Saudi Arabia has been a home for Alstom for over 70 years, and