France's railway offerings accessible with a single click: www.French-rail-industry.com

The first web portal to promote France’s railway offerings to the world is launched in Paris to coincide with the signing of a partnership between UBIFRANCE, the French Agency for International Business Development, and Fer de France, the French railway sector’s Inter-professional Association.

The website is being developed in English at www.French-rail-industry.com to meet a twofold objective:

•    To help raise the awareness among industry professionals worldwide of the know-how prevalent in France’s railway sector, a widely acknowledged and greatly praised centre of excellence. The website will promote the entire business sector with pages devoted to the latest international company news. It will also list a number of remarkable achievements by French companies abroad, as well as the year’s top events like international tradeshows where France has a substantial presence (especially INNOTRANS, from September 23rd to 26th, 2014 in Berlin).
•    To help put international buyers and French suppliers in touch with one another. The website will feature a showcase of France’s players in the railway sector, making it easy for foreign ordering parties to browse the profiles of any French company they choose and to contact them directly via a messaging interface integrated into the website.

The French suppliers featured on that platform are broken down into 8 main categories:

-     Railway infrastructure
-     Rolling stock
-     Rail car layout
-     Electronic systems embedded in the trains
-     Mechanical components on rolling stock 
-     Passenger Information and ticketing systems
-     Passenger public transport companies
-     Railway testing and engineering

Thanks to the expertise, technological skills and innovative ability of those companies, France’s railway industry enjoys international recognition as the world’s 3rd-ranking country. Within Europe, the French railway sector, with 1,500 companies making in excess of €4b (25% in export), ranks 2nd behind Germany.