Italcertifer to arrive in Australia for its most distant mission.

The safety certification on the network owned and operated by the multinational mining company Rio Tinto has been assigned to the FS Italiane Group Company.

The activities, valued at more than € 1 million, will last about two years and will cover the assessment of the Control, Command and Signaling System built by Ansaldo-STS covering approximately 1,300 km of the 1,500 km private railway network.

Italcertifer brings significant know-how and in-depth understanding of the entire railway processes, and in particular the signaling systems of Ansaldo STS, a leading Italian company in the rail sector.

The system will allow optimization of rail traffic improving the timely delivery of iron ore-loaded trains to the ports. With this innovative system that does not require a driver on board the locomotive, variability of scheduling and delivery will be minimized, contributing to the increase in export capacity from 290 millions tons per year to at least 360 million tonnes.

Rio Tinto’s rail network is used to transport iron ore to its ports of Dampier and Cape Lambert from the company’s 15 mines in the Pilbara region, located in the north west of Australia. The iron ore is mainly destined for the Chinese, Japanese and Korean markets. It is transported by freight trains, up to 236 wagons, each carrying about 25.000 tonnes, pulled by three diesel locomotives.

With this contract, Italcertifer confirms its leading role in the national and international certification sector. This follows contracts covering the Italian High Speed System and the Brenner Base Tunnel, and certification for High Speed and conventional lines in Turkey, the Mecca-Medina High Speed line in Saudi Arabia, the Shah-Habsan-Ruways line in the United Arab Emirates and many others in countries such as China, India, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland and Greece.

Press release of Italcertifer, 4 November 2013