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Siemens was recently tasked with designing the maintenance and overhaul programme of Eurostar’s new e320 fleet at Temple Mills depot and commissioned North Star to help analyse and review current data and propose a solution. We were asked to ensure a minimum of 88%-100% fleet availability during the week to guarantee the highest levels of customer service, whilst ensuring that down time for maintenance and overhaul would be kept to a minimum through task and activity optimisation at the depot.

Read more: North Star supports Siemens in providing 100% fleet availability of new e320 trains to Eurostar

We recently opened our first Middle East office in Dubai to respond better to the needs of our Middle East customers and continue contributing with our expertise to the development of the region's transport infrastructure.

Read more: North Star Middle East - Testimonials

To celebrate Northstar's Middle East office launch, our UK customers and colleagues joined us for a networking evening at the iconic Shard in London. This followed our successful launch in Dubai two weeks earlier.

Read more: North Star Middle East office launch at The Shard

North Star Consultancy, on behalf of contributing air-rail link companies worldwide, has completed its second market share benchmarking report.  This provides an in-depth review of rail to airport market shares from 2010 to 2013. The report enables contributors to compare their own performance against others and the factors affecting the differences. A key finding is that the market share overall index has fallen by 11 points since its inception in 2010.

Read more: Second Global Air-Rail benchmark report shows the impact of competition on market share