LSIS Won Urban Railway System Contract in Philippines

LS Industrial Systems (LSIS) has become the first South Korean company to make inroads into the urban railway control system market in the Philippines.

LSIS announced on July 20 (local time) that it won a contract of US$ 16.33 million (19 billion won) to replace the signals of the Manila Metro Transit Line 3 in the Philippines.

The contract comes as part of the Philippine Transport Ministry’s railway maintenance project, under which the Ministry will replace all of more than 20-year-old train control systems.

Hanwha has been selected as the company to carry out the project, and LSIS will deliver the train control system solutions related.

LSIS will provide its own solution “LTran-CX,” which uses the wireless Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) system for the total 13.4 km section of the urban railway running through Manila. The contract period is two years.

The CBTC system developed by LSIS in 2014 is a solution that maximizes the efficiency of train control by exchanging train location information via wireless communications between on board system and ground system.

In the meantime, Asia’s railway electrical and mechanical market is expected to greatly expand with some 1.2 trillion won this year.