BcnRail, the International Railway Industry Show, organised by Fira de Barcelona closed its second edition with a positive balance. A total of 8,073 trade visitors (15% more than in 2007), especially top executives, attended the show and generated multiple business leads with representatives from the 200 direct and represented exhibiting companies from 15 countries. This year's show has confirmed BcnRail as the Spanish railway industry's leading event.
All areas related to the railway industry were widely represented at this biennial show. The leading manufacturers of rolling stock, such as Alstom, Bombardier, CAF, Patentes Talgo, Siemens and Vossloh presented their latest technological innovations, one of the keys to understanding what the Ministry of Public Works'Secretary of State for Infrastructure and Planning, Victor Morlan, called "the second youth of the railway" during his visit to the show.
The presence of sectors such as engineering, building, infrastructures, superstructures, electrification, signage and telecommunications, auxiliary equipment, operators, services and maintenance, as well as a high number of SMEs, highlighted the "healthy state of the Spanish railway industry",according to the president of BcnRail, Guillermo Yenes.
The show had the support of the main Public Administrations, major promoters of the works on railway infrastructures being undertaken in Spain, such as the extension of the high speed network, the construction of new metro lines, such as line 9 in Barcelona, and the introduction of trams or metro light rail systems in various cities. In this sense, the Catalan Generalitat's Councillor for Territorial Policy and Public Works, Joaquim Nadal, said that "the 21st century is the century of the second railway revolution".
BcnRail 2009 also provided the setting for the 23rd General Assembly of the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Metros y Subterraneos (ALAMYS), which was attended by over 300 professionals.
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