Alstom looks to high-speed train maintenance contracts

French company wants to work on ensuring higher reliability and availability of rail cars

Beijing - While bidding to supply the world's fastest train to China, Alstom is looking at another gold mine in the country - high-speed train maintenance services.

In the eyes of Kim Chan, China managing director of Alstom's transport sector, the logical next step after the country's ambitious goal of building 18,000 km of high-speed passenger rail lines by 2020 is how to ensure greater reliability and availability of the trains that can run at least 250 km per hour.