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3. We are currently involved in lines such as Anteque- the kilometres travelled by AVE trains in Spain,
ra-Granada, Olmedo-Galicia, Monforte del Cid-Mur- mainly operating on the Madrid–Barcelona–Fi-
cia. In the international arena we should not forget gueres line and, to a lesser extent, on the Ma-
the Pilgrims’ AVE, running between the Saudi cities of drid–Malaga line. To date they have covered over
Mecca and Medina. 100,000,000 km.
The 100% availability of the scheduled services
meets Renfe’s need to increase its commercial
offer to the customers.

2. The good technical results obtained have made
NERTUS the benchmark maintenance company in
the AVE sector. The experience has also helped
consolidate and grow projects such as the main-
tenance of suburban line trains in Madrid and Bar-
NERTUS celona, the installation of onboard equipment, and
the repair of electronic systems.

1. NERTUS was born in 2002 as the first investee 3. At a national level we would highlight the main-
company of Renfe and Siemens, with the aim of ta- tenance of Series 103 trains, with the additional
king advantage of synergies between Siemens as a experience we have in the maintenance of AVE in-
train manufacturer and Renfe Integria as an indus- frastructure (Overhead Contact Line).
trial organization specializing in rolling stock main- Abroad NERTUS in involved in initiatives of con-
tenance. We have been carrying out the mainte- sultancy and the exchange of best practices with
nance and operating management of the fleet of other projects on the Velaro platform, on which
26 Series 103 trains since 2007 when they entered Renfe’s S103 are based. We would also highlight
into service. our Electronic Systems Repair Workshop, which
Today Series 103 trains account for a third of has customers from over 15 countries.

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