Freight news – Page 141
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NewsSouth Africa's 'largest ever' locomotive order awarded to four suppliers
SOUTH AFRICA: Transnet announced the 'largest-ever loco supply contract in South Africa's history' on March 17. The country's 'single biggest infrastructure investment initiative by a corporate' comprises orders for four companies to supply a total of 1 064 locomotives worth R50bn. CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive is to supply 359 electric ...
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NewsWatching your wagons
UAE: New York Air Brake and Lat-Lon have provided monitoring technology for 240 sulphur wagons supplied to Etihad Rail. Eight wheelset sensors per wagon measure bearing temperature and the degree of tilt to warn of potential derailment. The upper hatch is monitored for open/closed status by two more devices, ...
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NewsFreight spend planned
MEXICO: Speaking at a recent conference in Cancún, federal Under-Secretary of Transport Carlos Almada outlined the 13 railway projects that are being taken forward by the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto, representing total investment of 125bn pesos. As well as the projects for new passenger lines from Mexico City ...
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NewsRefrigerated intermodal freight operator bought
USA: Federated Capital Corp subsidiary Federated Railways has agreed to acquire Rail Logistics LC, including its 'Cold Train' refrigerated express intermodal service. The new subsidiary will be named Federated Cold Train, trading as Cold Train. Rail Logistics launched Cold Train in partnership with BNSF Railway in April 2010. It now ...
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NewsCN announces C$2·1bn capital investment plan for 2014
CANADA: CN has announced a C$2·1bn capital investment plan for 2014, slightly up on the C$2·0bn which it spent last year. The 2014 plan allocates: C$1·2bn for infrastructure on the 32 000 km network in Canada and the USA, including track renewals, bridge improvements and various branch line upgrades; ...
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NewsSlower trains will need more wagons
USA: Announcing that it had received orders for 5 600 wagons worth $460m in its second financial quarter which ended on February 28, The Greenbrier Companies said it expects that current 'downward trends in railroad train velocity' will lead to stronger demand for certain types of wagon. The orders include ...
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NewsSpecial rail fastenings for Mongolian heavy haul coal line
MONGOLIA: Samsung C&T Engineering Construction Mongolia has awarded Vossloh Fastening Systems a contract to supply specially-developed MNG 30 rail fastenings for 270 km of 1 520 mm gauge track it is laying for a 217 km heavy haul railway which will link the Tavan Tolgoi coal mines to the Chinese ...
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NewsALL merger proposed
BRAZIL: América Latina Logística SA announced on February 24 that it had received a proposal to combine its activities with those of Rumo Logística Operadora Multimodal SA, a subsidiary of energy and logistics group Cosan. The proposal values ALL at R$6⋅96bn, equivalent to R$10⋅18 per share. ALL shareholders would hold ...
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NewsSouth Heart terminal to support Bakken oil industry
USA: Watco Terminal & Port Services and Great Northern Project Development are to build a multi-purpose freight terminal and wagon maintenance workshop 8 km west of South Heart, North Dakota, to support the Bakken shale oil and gas industry. Work on the South Heart Rail Terminal is scheduled to begin ...
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NewsDouble-tracking progress in southern Java
INDONESIA: Japan Transportation Consultants has been awarded a US$15m contract by the Directorate-General of Railways to supervise the double-tracking of 76 km of the southern trans-Java main line. The award of the marks a further stage of work to enhance capacity and reduce journey times on the main line between ...
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NewsUnion Pacific announces $3·9bn capital plan for 2014
USA: The Union Pacific Corp board has approved a $3·9bn capital spending plan for 2014. This is up $300m on 2013, primarily because the number of locomotives to be acquired will be increased from 100 last year to 200 this year, and greater investment is to be made in capacity ...
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NewsTrinity sells more wagons to Element Financial Corp
USA: Trinity Industries has sold a second tranche of wagons to Element Financial Corp under a $2bn alliance announced by the companies during December. The sale announced on January 28 comprises a portfolio of existing leased wagons worth $396m. They will be managed by Trinity Industries Leasing Co. Trinity ...
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NewsColombian railway revival gets underway
COLOMBIA: As part of a strategy to remove damaging heavy freight traffic from the roads, the government has awarded contracts for rehabilitation of two sections of the 914 mm gauge rail network which have been out of use since the 1980s. Work by local contractors to return the lines to ...
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NewsGB Railfreight orders more Class 66s
UK: GB Railfreight announced an order for a further 13 Electro-Motive Diesel Class 66 locomotives on February 7. This follows an order for eight announced in September 2013, and will take the operator's Class 66 fleet to 71 locomotives when they are delivered in late 2014. GBRf said it had ...
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NewsGreenbrier plans safer tank car design
USA: Responding to growing concern over the safety of crude oil movements by rail in North America, rolling stock builder The Greenbrier Companies announced on February 5 that it is to develop a new-generation ‘Tank Car of the Future’ for the transport of hazardous freight, including crude oil and ethanol. ...
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NewsBNSF announces record capital investment plan
USA: BNSF Railway announced a 'single-year record capital commitment plan' on February 4. The total value is $5bn, up almost $1bn on its 2013 capital spend. The 2014 plan includes: $2·3bn for infrastructure works on the 52 000 route-km network in 28 US states and two Canadian provinces; $1·6bn ...
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NewsHigher axleloads planned to boost iron ore capacity
NORWAY: Infrastructure manager Jernbaneverket is studying a proposal to upgrade the 35 km Dunderlandsbane section of the Trondheim - Bodø route to increase the maximum axleload from 24 to 30 tonnes. The plan has been put forward by mining company Rana Gruber, which contracts Cargolink to haul iron ore on ...
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NewsKTMB concession plan rejected
MALAYSIA: A plan to contract out national railway KTMB’s train operating activities to a consortium of local firms MMC and Gamuda has been cancelled by the government. The two groups, which have interests in engineering, logistics and shipping, are understood to have been in discussions with the government for more ...
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NewsOpen access in Africa
AFRICA: Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority and major customer Impala Warehousing & Logistics International signed a memorandum of understanding on January 21 which could lead to the private company running its own trains. The planned track access agreement would mark the beginning of private sector participation in the operations of Tazara, reflecting ...
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NewsZambian Copperbelt railway agreement
ZAMBIA: An agreement to complete a bankable feasibility study for the construction of a 590 km railway to serve the Copperbelt area of northern Zambia and the Angolan border was signed by project promoter Northwest Rail Co and South African logistics company Grindrod on February 3. Road infrastructure in the ...