Freight news – Page 124
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NewsFreightliner Dragon on test
POLAND: The first of five E6DCF-DP Dragon locomotives that Newag is building for Freightliner PL has arrived at the Żmigród test circuit for homologation trials. Under a €17⋅5m contract signed with ING Lease in January 2015, the first three of the new fleet are due to be delivered by the ...
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NewsArticulated open wagon unveiled
RUSSIA: Two prototype high capacity wagons have been unveiled by United Wagon Co, which said its latest designs have ‘no analogues’ in Russia or the CIS. Certification of the two 1520 mm gauge designs is expected in the third quarter of 2016. The Type 12-6877 articulated twin-unit wagon increases ...
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NewsState Railway of Thailand tests small containers
THAILAND: State Railway of Thailand has launched a trial freight service using 12 foot containers. These are smaller than standard 20 foot containers, and it is hoped this will simplify last-mile transport by road and mean freight can handled at existing stations more easily. The Japanese-backed trials were launched with ...
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NewsSteelworks locomotive handed over
CZECH REPUBLIC: The first of 20 Class 741.7 diesel-electric locomotives which CZ Loko is to supply to the Czech Republic’s largest steelworks this year under a 10-year leasing and servicing deal was handed over on January 28. The ArcelorMittal Ostrava plant has 190 km of internal railway carrying 1·7 ...
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NewsChina - Iran container train
ASIA: What is described as the first container train service between China and Iran was launched on January 28, when a train carrying ‘small commodities’ departed from Yiwu for Tehran. The 10 399 km journey via Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan with two breaks of gauge is scheduled to take 14 days, ...
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NewsÖBB and SŽ plan rail freight co-operation
EUROPE: Austrian Federal Railways and Slovenia’s SŽ have announced that they are ‘discussing options to enter into an intensified co-operation for their rail freight business’. A letter of intent has been signed, and joint utilisation of assets and the formation of a joint enterprise is planned ‘from 2017 onwards’. The ...
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NewsERMEWA merges wagon leasing brands
ERMEWA: Leasing company Ermewa has merged its grain wagon leasing business Compagnie de Transports de Céréales and construction materials wagon specialist Société de Gérance de Wagons de Grandes Capacités into the main Ermewa brand with effect from the start of 2016. Ermewa now has a combined fleet of more ...
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NewsTier 4 industrial shunting locomotive
NORTH AMERICA: Tractive Power Corp’s US manufacturing contractor Curry Rail Services has completed a demonstrator Tier 4 compliant version of the TP56 industrial shunting locomotive, which is designed to use off-the-shelf industrial and railway components. The three-axle TP56 locomotive uses half of the frame of an SD40-2 with one ...
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NewsGreece restarts Trainose privatisation
GREECE: The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund privatisation agency has relaunched the planned sale of national train operator Trainose, a process which began in 2013 but was suspended following a change of government last year. Announcing the restart of the process on January 27, HRADF said it planned to ...
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NewsNorfolk Southern announces cost-cutting plan
USA: Norfolk Southern Corp announced details of a strategic plan to become a 'faster, lower cost and more profitable railroad' on January 27, saying it expects to achieve annual productivity savings of $130m in 2016 and more than $650m by 2020. The plan is the result of a six-month evaluation ...
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NewsCP Carga privatisation completed
PORTUGAL: Mediterranean Shipping Company SA has announced that its subsidiary MSC Rail completed the acquisition of a 95% stake in CP Carga on January 21, taking control of the freight and logistics business of national operator CP. The remaining 5% of the company is to be offered to employees. ‘We ...
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NewsEtihad Rail suspends Stage 2 tendering
UAE: National rail developer Etihad Rail announced on January 26 that it had suspended the tendering process for Stage Two of the project and informed all the bidders in writing. Etihad Rail recently started commercial operation on the initial phase of the planned network, which links Shah and Habshan to ...
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NewsMumbai – Mediterranean rail and sea corridor agreed
INTERNATIONAL: Railway, shipping and port officials from Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine met in Azerbaijan on January 12 to agree plans for the development of freight transport corridors between the Indian port of Mumbai and the Mediterranean. Three routes are offered. All start with the maritime leg from Mumbai ...
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NewsUS-Chinese joint venture delivers first wagons
USA: The Vertex Railcar Corp joint venture of US and Chinese companies has delivered the first batch of wagons to be assembled at its plant in Wilmington, North Carolina. This follows Association of American Railroads certification which was announced in late December. The first 30 of 60 sand hoppers ...
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NewsRussian wagon certified for 120 km/h operation
RUSSIA: Wagon manufacturer Altaivagon has obtained type approval for its Type 13-2114-11 container flat wagon design with 18-2145 bogies, which it says will be the first Russian wagons able to operate at 120 km/h, loaded or empty.Certification enables production to begin, with the first batch of the wagons to be ...
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NewsPakistan Railways orders 800 coal hoppers
PAKISTAN: China Railway Rolling Stock Corp signed a Rs3·92bn agreement for its Jinan Railway Vehicles subsidiary to supply 800 hopper wagons to Pakistan Railways on January 14. Deliveries are scheduled for six to 10 months, with 205 of the wagons to be supplied from China and 595 produced at ...
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NewsUnited Wagon Co delivers first high-capacity tank wagons
RUSSIA: United Wagon Co recently delivered the first wagons manufactured by TikhvinChemMash. The subsidiary was established at UWC's Tikhvin factory to produce tank cars to modern designs developed by its Centre for Transportation Technologies. The chemical tanks were delivered to Ural Mining & Metallurgical Co’s Sredneuralsky Copper Smelter and Yekaterinburg ...
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NewsGotthard Base Tunnel freight tests begin
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NewsRing of Fire railway planned to Big Daddy and Black Horse
CANADA: Mining exploration company KWG Resources Inc is negotiating a deal for China Railway First Survey & Design Institute Group Co to undertake a feasibility study for the construction and financing of a proposed 328 km multi-user railway which would link mineral deposits in the remote Ring of Fire region ...
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NewsArriva and Schenker sell-off decision delayed
GERMANY: Plans announced last July for the possible part-privatisation of Deutsche Bahn subsidiaries DB Arriva and DB Schenker Logistics are in doubt following government indications that it is unhappy with DB’s proposals. DB had hoped to raise up to €4∙5bn from a sale that could be set against its debt ...