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NewsHo Chi Minh City metro line 1 construction contract signed
VIETNAM: A contract for the construction of the first stage of Ho Chi Minh City metro line 1 was signed on May 16, paving the way for main works to begin in September. The 17·1 km elevated section between Ben Thanh Market and Suoi Tien Park with 11 stations is ...
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NewsAlstom begins work on bogie plant
CANADA: A ceremony on May 18 launched construction of a new Alstom plant at the Ludger-Simard industrial estate in Sorel-Tracy, Québec. Alstom will use the site to assemble bogies for 468 rubber-tyred metro cars which Société de Transport de Montréal ordered from a Bombardier/Alstom consortium in October 2010. The C$1·2bn ...
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NewsTaiwan High Speed Rail Corp orders more trains
TAIWAN: Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp has ordered a further four Series 700T trainsets from a consortium of Japanese firms Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Toshiba Corp. The 12-car trains designed for 300 km/h operation are scheduled to be delivered between December 2012 and November 2015. They will enable THSRC to ...
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NewsJoint venture formed to run Algerian tramways
ALGERIA: A joint venture company to operate and maintain tram lines in Algeria has been formed by the RATP Dev subsidiary of Paris transport operator RATP (49%) and local organisations Entreprise du Métro d'Alger (30%) and Etablissement Public de Transport Urbain et Suburbain d'Alger (21%). The joint venture will operate ...
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NewsMasabi to launch smartphone ticketing in Boston
USA: Mobile ticketing technology company Masabi is supplying Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority with what it says will be the USA’s first smartphone rail ticketing system. Masabi is to provide iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps, back-end servers, payment integration and barcode validation software for onboard staff. A pilot will begin shortly, ...
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News'Solid commercial performance' at Alstom
ALSTOM: Presenting the company's results for 2011-12 on May 4, Chairman & CEO Patrick Kron announced a 'solid commercial performance' for the last financial year, with sales gradually recovering. In the year to March 31 2012 Alstom booked €21·7bn of orders, up 14% on the previous year. Emerging countries accounted ...
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NewsPortland light rail expansion funding signed
USA: The Federal Transit Administration has signed the full-funding grant agreement allowing TriMet to proceed with construction of the Portland-Milwaukie light rail project and order a further 18 Siemens light rail vehicles. The $745·2m grant signed on May 22 will cover half of the $1·49bn cost of the 11·3 km ...
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NewsBuenos Aires commuter railway concession revoked
ARGENTINA: Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido announced on May 24 that Trenes de Buenos Aires would be stripped of its concession to operate the Sarmiento and Mitre commuter networks. The decision to revoke the concession by means of a presidential decree had been taken because of inadequate rolling ...
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Carsten Gerner
Carsten Gerner and Helge Israelsen have been nominated for election to the DSB Board of Directors by Danish Transport Minister Henrik Dam Kristensen.
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NewsFinal phase of KiwiRail turnaround funded
NEW ZEALAND: The government's 2012-13 budget unveiled on May 24 has allocated NZ$250m of capital funding to KiwiRail, the final instalment in a three-year NZ$750m package to support the national railway's Turnaround Plan announced in 2010. The funding will be used to remove capacity constraints and improve the reliability of ...
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NewsAlstom buys DB stake in locomotive joint venture
GERMANY: On May 22 Alstom announced it had signed a contract to take over the 49% stake in the Alstom Lokomotiven Service joint venture which is held by DB Mobility Logistics, giving it full control. The joint venture was formed in 2002 and is based at Stendal. It now has ...
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NewsBearing test facility opened
RUSSIA: SKF has opened a railway axlebox bearing test facility at its Tver factory which it says is the first to be certified under new Russian safety norms. The Tver factory was opened in 2010 to produce sealed and pre-lubricated compact tapered bearing units for Russian and international customers. ...
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NewsGas tank wagon lease signed
RUSSIA: Leasing firm Brunswick Rail announced a seven-year agreement to supply 150 gas tank wagons to the SIBUR-Trans subsidiary of petrochemicals group SIBUR on May 24. The type 15-1780 wagons built by Ukrainian firm Poltavhimmash are designed to carry propane and butane. The first 20 are expected to be delivered ...
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NewsKazakhstan plans its place on the New Silk Road
KAZAKHSTAN: Speaking at the 25th meeting of the Council of Foreign Investors on May 22, President Nursultan Nazarbayev set out his vision for a 'New Silk Road' strategy to exploit the country's potential as an east-west and north-south transit hub by 2020. Rail projects in the strategy include the completion ...
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NewsDonetsk station rebuild completed
UKRAINE: National railway UZ officially completed an extensive modernisation of the main station in Donetsk on May 22. The project has been undertaken to increase capacity from 15 000 to more than 35 000 passengers/day, shorten walking distances, improve links to local transport and increase accessibility for users with ...
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NewsMalaysia - Singapore Rapid Transit study commissioned
ASIA: Malaysia's Land Public Transport Commission and Singapore's Land Transport Authority have awarded AECOM Technology Corp a US$42m contract to undertake engineering studies for the proposed Malaysia - Singapore Rapid Transit System Link. AECOM will undertake an architectural and engineering study for the proposed connection between Singapore and Johor Bahru ...
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NewsGE Transportation to build diesel engine plant to serve CIS region
KAZAKHSTAN: A memorandum of understanding setting out plans to establish a US$90m diesel engine manufacturing plant in Astana was signed by GE Transportation, TransmashDiesel and national railway KTZ on May 23. The parties plan to form a joint venture which would produce around 400 Evolution Series engines a year for ...
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Douglas Oakervee
Douglas Oakervee, a former Executive Chairman of Crossrail, has succeeded Sir Brian Briscoe as Chairman of HS2 Ltd, the company set up by the UK government to develop a high speed line between London and the north of England.
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NewsWorld rolling stock market May 2012
Argentina: Last month 15 ex-NS DH1 single-car DMUs were shipped from the Netherlands to Buenos Aires suburban concessionaire TBA. Ferrosur Roca has taken delivery of two more EMD G26 locomotives rebuilt by TŽV Gredelj. Bangladesh: Using Indian government credit, BR has awarded Texmaco a 600m taka contract to ...
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NewsEuroporte Channel trials piggyback to London
UK: Eurotunnel’s rail freight subsidiary Europorte Channel ran a trial train from Antwerpen to Barking on May 21-22 to demonstrate the feasibility of operating unaccompanied piggyback trains to London via High Speed 1, carrying P400 craneable semitrailers as used in mainland Europe. The test used a Sdggmiss two-section pocket wagon ...
