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Wabtec Corporation and the Port of Kiel celebrated today the installation of a sustainable shore power solution to support cruise operators. ShoreCONNECT has the potential to reduce nearly all emissions from cruise ships by providing shore power while berthing at the port.

General Motors Co (GM.N) will supply electric batteries and hydrogen fuel cell systems for rail supplier Wabtec Corp’s (WAB.N) locomotives, in a move extending the No. 1 U.S. automaker’s reach outside the automotive sector.

Watch what Alan Hamilton, Senior Engineering Executive at Wabtec had to say about our new partnership with General Motors in an interview with KDKA-TV | CBS Pittsburgh

Wabtec occupies 11,000 square feet of space in the first building of Neighborhood 91, an additive manufacturing and 3D-printing supply chain hub in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Wabtec has announced the opening of a new 11,000-square-foot facility at the Neighborhood 91 additive manufacturing production campus.

BNSF and Wabtec reported May 17 that their three-month pilot of a battery-electric locomotive (BEL) reduced fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by an average of 11% in a revenue service train.

Pittsburgh-based Wabtec announces positive results from its 3 month pilot with BNSF.

The Wabtec FLXdrive Battery Locomotive—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—uses batteries to help out its engine, and recharges them as it brakes.

The 15,000-cubic-yard self-propelled trailing suction hopper dredge on order at the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, for Manson Construction Co. will be powered by five Wabtec V250MDC marine diesel engines (three 16V250MDC units and two 12V250MDC units).

Eric Gebhardt, our chief technology officer chats with Freight Waves about how technology plays a role in meeting companies’ sustainability goals.

Siemens Mobility has selected Wabtec Corp. to provide components for the 94 new nine-car Inspiro trains it is supplying as part of the London Underground’s Piccadilly Upgrade Program.

Wabtec President and CEO Rafael Santana announced the establishment of a research institute in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Genesee & Wyoming (G&W), during a recent House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing.

Wabtec CEO Rafael Santana has called on Congress to help fund development of zero-emission locomotives. The company’s FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive is now testing on BNSF Railway in California.

American manufacturers are starting to talk more like Europeans, where fuel is costly, and words like “sustainability” pepper conversations. One case in point is the 2020 Sustainability Report for freight and transit rail manufacturer Wabtec Corporation.