Freight news – Page 121
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NewsSiemens completes ETCS Baseline 3 interoperability tests
SWEDEN: With assistance from open access train operator Hector Rail, Siemens undertook two weeks of ERTMS testing on the West Coast main line in southwest Sweden during November, aimed at validating the Baseline 3 specifications for cross-border operation in Scandinavia. A Siemens Vectron multi-system electric locomotive was equipped with a ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
CRRC Dalian has delivered eight Type CKD0B locomotives to Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp in Vietnam. They have 4240ZJ diesel engines, are rated at 735 kW and are equipped for remote control operation. Oakey Abattoir in Queensland took delivery of beef cattle by train for the first time in 21 ...
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NewsGenesee & Wyoming completes Glencore acquisition
AUSTRALIA: Genesee & Wyoming Inc announced on December 1 that its subsidiary Genesee & Wyoming Australia had completed the acquisition of Glencore Rail for A$1·14bn. GWA had concurrently issued a 49% equity stake to funds managed by Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets. The acquisition of GRail, Australia’s third-largest coal haulage ...
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NewsAfghanistan and Turkmenistan open Lapis Lazuli railway
ASIA: A line running 85 km from Atamyrat in Turkmenistan to the Ymamnazar border crossing point and 3 km onwards to Afghanistan’s border facilities at Akina was officially opened by Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani who ceremonially tightened a golden bolt on November 28. The 1 ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
RheinCargo has taken delivery of the first three of 10 Traxx AC3 Class 187 electric locomotives ordered from Bombardier Transportation. The rest are scheduled to arrive from the manufacturer's Kassel plant by the end of the year. It is reported that services on Syria’s 65 km coastal line between the ...
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NewsLoko Trans to develop Skopje rail hub
MACEDONIA: Czech freight operator and rolling stock maintenance company Loko Trans is to invest €20m to establish a logistics centre in Skopje to serve the Balkan region. This will include facilities for rolling stock maintenance and repair, as well as freight transhipment, warehousing and a customs office. Construction is expected ...
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NewsBNSF and KCSM announce cross-border intermodal service
NORTH AMERICA: An intermodal freight service connecting locations on BNSF’s network including Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth with Mexican destinations served by Kansas City Southern de México is to be launched on December 1. Shipments are to travel in bond, clearing customs at the Mexican origin or destination, and there would ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
TMH’s Bryansk Engineering Plant has delivered two TEM18DM shunting locomotives to Kazakh chemical company TK Zhetysu. Argentina’s Minister of Transport Guillermo Dietrich has welcomed the first sugar traffic to move by rail in the province of Tucumán for 34 years. He attributed this to the government’s current investment programme to ...
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NewsPrima India locos to have ABB transformers
INDIA: Alstom has awarded ABB a contract to supply 1 600 traction transformers for the 800 twin-section Prima India electric freight locomotives it is to build for use on routes including the future Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor. The transformers are to be manufactured at ABB's Vadodara facility in Gujarat, supporting ...
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NewsWien Süd freight terminal test operations begin
AUSTRIA: Rail Cargo Austria has begun test running at the Wien Süd freight terminal, ahead of the official opening on December 5 of what is planned to be Austria's biggest import and export transshipment hub. Built by ÖBB-Infrastruktur over a three-year period, the multi-functional terminal includes an intermodal facility with ...
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NewsEQT completes acquisition of GB Railfreight
UK: Private equity fund EQT Infrastructure II announced on November 15 that it had completed the acquisition of Groupe Eurotunnel’s UK freight operating subsidiary GB Railfreight. The acquisition with an enterprise value of €180m has been made through an indirectly-owned company within Hector Rail Group, Sweden’s largest private freight operator ...
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NewsPrototype piggyback wagons on test
CHINA: China Railway Corp is testing prototype piggyback wagons which have been developed by CRRC Qiqihar in partnership with the China Academy of Railway Sciences and other bodies. The manufacturer said that while piggyback operation is now common in North America and Europe, it is not used in China. ...
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NewsIndependent transport regulator to be established
CZECH REPUBLIC: The government has approved an act paving the way for the creation of an independent transport infrastructure access regulator Úřad pro přístup k dopravní infrastruktuře with effect from April 1 2017. ÚPDI is to have 20 to 30 staff, and will be led by a chairman appointed by ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
A pilot China-Pakistan Economic Corridor train co-ordinated by Pakistan’s Frontier Works Organization has run from Havelian freight terminal in northern Pakistan to Port Qasim at Karachi, carrying containers which had arrived from China by road convoy. Polish rail freight company Industrial Division has acquired four Newag E6ACT Dragon locomotives from ...
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NewsLokotrans timber wagons delivered
RUSSIA: Lokotrans has taken delivery of the first of 250 Type 13-6852 high-capacity timber wagons which are being supplied by United Wagon Co’s TikhvinSpetsMash business in co-operation with its Tikhvin plant. The 25 tonne axleload bogies mean the can carry a payload of 74 tonnes, and they have a capacity ...
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NewsWagon conversion to support DB Cargo contract renewal
UK: Construction materials supplier Day Group has renewed for a further 10 years a contract for DB Cargo UK to haul sea-dredged aggregates and incinerator bottom ash. The aggregates are transported from Cliffe in Kent to depots at Crawley, Purley, Tolworth and Battersea in London. The ash trains run from ...
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NewsCost savings expected from tank wagon order
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co’s ТikhvinChemMash plant has won a second contract to supply to Ilim Group subsidiary Fintrans GL with tank wagons to carry chemical products including caustic soda. The order announced on November 8 will take the company’s fleet of modern tank wagons to around 50 vehicles by the ...
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NewsFirst GE Evolution loco for Pakistan completed
PAKISTAN: The first of 55 Evolution Series ES43ACi diesel locomotives which GE Transportation is building for Pakistan Railways is undergoing final testing ahead of delivery from the USA. The 1 676 mm gauge Class GEU-40 locomotives are to be supplied fully assembled. Pakistan Railways expects to commission the first locomotive ...
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NewsWorld rail freight news round-up
Rail freight traffic in North Korea in the three months to September 2016 was reported to be up by 1 million tonnes on the same period last year, following to efforts to repair locomotives and wagons, improve terminals and reduce wagon turnaround times. Russian Railways ran a trial 12 600 ...
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NewsGenesee & Wyoming acquires Providence & Worcester Railroad
USA: International freight railway group Genesee & Wyoming Inc announced on November 1 that it had completed the acquisition of Providence & Worcester Railroad Co for $126m. Following the closing of the transaction, G&W immediately transferred control of P&W to a voting trust with R Lawrence McCaffrey appointed as trustee. ...