Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that its eLTE solution has won a bid for Shenhua Group Corporation’s Shuo Huang Railway (SHR) LTE project. Huawei will deliver the project soon, Huawei.com reports. Shenhua, one of the largest coal supply and trade companies, has developed and implemented the world\'s first LTE network for heavy-haul railways. The project will be a significant development for the application of LTE technology in the industry.

SHR, with an operating route length of 594 kilometers, is a critical railway section for China’s West-to-East Coal Transfer project. Shenhua hopes to expand the railway’s capacity to transfer 350 million tons of coal needed to maintain efficient and safe operations for 20,000-ton capacity heavy-haul trains. To address these challenges, Huawei worked with six industry partners to research, plan, conduct trial tests, and engineer the construction of SHR’s new railway mobile broadband communications system since 2010. Over four years, multiple lab tests were conducted and four on-site tests were completed at the railway’s 42 kilometer trial section.

Huawei will continue to collaborate with railway industry partners to use eLTE for wireless broadband networks to enable safer and more efficient railway operations. As of the end of March 2014, Huawei has signed 53 eLTE network contracts with customers across multiple vertical industries, including public safety, transportation, energy and electricity.