Success Story: Fima Background When Lithuanian intelligent engineering solutions company Fima won the contract to modernize the signaling and power systems along a key 112 km Trans-European rail freight corridor, the company chose Eaton medium voltage (MV) equipment as the basis of the power system upgrade. The railway line between Kaunas and Kybartai in Lithuania – Branch IX D of International Transport Corridor IX – is a vital link in the European rail freight network and traffic on the route is growing fast. In the year 2000, Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos Geležinkeliai AB), carried 30,712,000 tonnes of freight, but the estimated figure for 2011 is 52,230,000 tonnes, an increase of more than 70% in just 11 years. Until recently, however, the route used signaling

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