Freight news – Page 161
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NewsLaos cross-border freight hopes
ASIA: A senior official at State Railway of Thailand has raised hopes that freight services may be introduced later this year over the Friendship Bridge to the Laotian railhead at Tha Na Laeng. 'Hopefully this year we can run the first freight service', Voravuth Mala, Director of Marketing at SRT ...
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NewsMalawi ore corridor agreement
AFRICA: Brazilian mining company Vale signed a memorandum of understanding with the Malawian government in April covering construction of a 100 km rail link from Blantyre to the Moatize coalfields in neighbouring Mozambique. This would provide a 900 km rail corridor from the mines, through Malawi, to the port of ...
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NewsDB plans two north-south freight corridors
GERMANY: DB Netz and the Federal Ministry of Transport are discussing plans to develop and finance two north-south freight corridors. Speaking at the iaf Congress in Münster on May 18, Dipl-Wirtsch Inf Oliver Kraft, Chairman of DB Netz AG, said priority had been allocated to an eastern corridor running ...
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NewsGlobaltrans plans private locomotives
RUSSIA: Private freight operator Globaltrans is poised to take advantage of a partial liberalisation of the traction market which the government is expected to announce later this year, CEO Sergey Maltsev said on April 4. Globaltrans is one of a number of independent freight operators in Russia, and it has ...
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NewsSNCB Logistics to update resource planning systems
BELGIUM: National rail freight operator SNCB Logistics has selected Quintiq and Ab Ovo to deliver a new resource planning and operations management system to co-ordinate its business over the coming year. Under a contract announced on May 11, the long-term planning functions are due to go live towards the end ...
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NewsDB Schenker Rail to serve Baltic States
LITHUANIA: An increase in rail freight traffic between central Europe and the Baltic States is expected following the signing of a co-operation agreement between DB Schenker Rail Polska CEO Hans-Georg Werner and the Director General of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai Stasys Dailydka at the Transport Logistic fair in München on May 10. ...
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NewsBombardier launches Traxx electro-diesel
GERMANY: Bombardier Transportation unveiled the latest addition to its Traxx modular locomotive family at the Transport Logistic trade fair in München on May 10. Known as the 'Last Mile Diesel', it is a Traxx AC electric locomotive with a supplementary diesel engine. The design is intended to avoid the need ...
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NewsRio Tinto places ECP braking order
AUSTRALIA: Wabtec is to supply Rio Tinto with electronically controlled pneumatic braking equipment for an initial six heavy haul locomotives and 3 600 iron ore wagons under a US$21m contract announced on May 9. The equipment is to be delivered in 2011-12 for retrofitting to wagons which currently have Wabtec's ...
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NewsUS firm to develop high axleload wagons for Indian Railways
INDIA: Indian Railways' Research Designs & Standards Organisation has awarded American Railcar Industries Inc a US$9·6m contract to design four types of wagon offering higher axleloads than existing IR designs, and produce six prototype vehicles in the USA. The resulting designs may be used by the Amtek Railcar Industries 50:50 ...
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NewsPeculiar Knob contract signed
AUSTRALIA: Genesee & Wyoming Australia has ordered nine 4 400 hp locomotives and plans to order rolling stock and other facilities taking its total investment to A$67m after signing a contract to haul iron ore from the Peculiar Knob mine which is being developed by WPG Resources in central South ...
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NewsGWI launches Antwerpen port shunting service
BELGIUM: Rotterdam Rail Feeding has launched Antwerp Rail Feeding to provide shunting and short-haul services at the Port of Antwerpen, its US-based parent company Genesee & Wyoming Inc announced on April 27. ARF has taken delivery of a Belgian-certified Vossloh G2000 DBNL, and plans to acquire further locomotives. RRF provides ...
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NewsConnecting China and Europe
CENTRAL ASIA: The Economic Co-operation Organisation is keen to develop east-west links with central Asia, Director of Transport & Communications Dr Esamil Tekyehsadat has told Railway Gazette International, with a particular focus on providing a standard gauge route from China to the Gulf ports and to Turkey, and thus Europe. ...
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NewsTank wagon contract takes GATX into Turkey
TURKEY: GATX Corp's tank wagon leasing business GATX Rail Europe has entered the Turkish market with the deployment of a fleet of 95 m3 petroleum tank wagons ordered from RAIL Tur of Kayseri. Transtur will mange the fleet, which carries refined products for BP Turkey. 'It is especially satisfying ...
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NewsPerella Weinberg Partners to acquire AIG wagon leasing business
USA: An agreement for Perella Weinberg Partners' Asset Based Value investment vehicle to acquire the AIG Rail Services wagon leasing business from American International Group was announced on April 19. Financial details were not disclosed. On completion of the transaction in the second quarter of 2011 Perella Weinberg Partners will ...
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NewsDB Regio orders multi-engine Traxx diesel locomotives
GERMANY: DB Regio has awarded Bombardier Transportation a framework contract for the supply of up to 200 Traxx DE Multi-Engine locomotives, which will have four small diesel engines in place of one large prime mover. The nine-year agreement announced on April 18 is worth €600m, and includes a €62m firm ...
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NewsRail attracts Marco Polo funding
EUROPE: Rail accounts for 19 of the 32 projects awarded funding under the latest round of the EU's Marco Polo programme, which aims to support the transfer of freight from road to more sustainable modes. The rail schemes allocated funding by the European Commission on April 5 include the transport ...
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NewsGauge-enhancement work completed
UK: The completion of a £71m programme to allow 9 ft 6 in containers to be carried on conventional flat wagons from the UK's second-largest container port was marked with a ceremony at Southampton Central station on April 4. The enhancement of the loading gauge on the key artery between ...
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NewsAlaska Railroad tenders Port MacKenzie extension works
USA: Tenders are to be invited this month for construction work on the first section of Alaska Railroad’s 51 km Port MacKenzie Extension, following the publication of the final Environmental Impact Statement by the Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis on March 25. The line is intended to connect ...
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NewsGO Transit tracks change hands
CANADA: Metrolinx, the regional transport agency for Greater Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, confirmed on March 30 that it had completed the purchase of a section of CN's Kingston Subdivision for C$299m. Running eastwards from Toronto’s Union station to Pickering, Ontario, the two and three-track line is primarily used by GO ...
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NewsHS1 freight draws closer
UK: The trial of a Class 92 locomotive with fully operational TVM430 cab signalling on High Speed 1 has been ‘an outstanding success’, according to DB Schenker (UK) Ltd. The test run on March 25 from Dollands Moor to Singlewell marked a ‘significant milestone’ in the five-year programme to modify ...