GE Transportation, a unit of Fairfield-based General Electric Co., is partnering with a Swedish firm to provide maintenance and technical support to the rail industry in Europe, including service on new GE locomotives.
GE officials are announcing the deal today with Stockholm-based EuroMaint Rail.
The collaboration will provide rolling stock maintenance, service, and spare parts services to bear as Europe’s rail industry grows under deregulation.
The partnership will provide service to existing rail fleets, as well as GE’s new European PowerHaul Locomotive which should be delivered to Freightliner Group Ltd. in the United Kingdom later this year.
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The new locomotives are supposed to cut fuel use by up to 9 percent. (AP)
