Railway supply industry news
Latest business news from the global railway supply industry, including company mergers, acquisitions and financial results.
Rail cyber-resilience collaboration
INTERNATIONAL: A memorandum of understanding to collaborate on enhancing the cyber-resilience of rail operations was signed by rail cybersecurity specialist RazorSecure, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Mitsubishi Electric Europe and EKE Electronics during the 18th UK-Japan Rail Working Group hosted by the Department for Transport in London on December 11.
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This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.
Russian-backed consortium prepares to start production of Indian overnight trains
INDIA: A Russian-backed consortium led by Transmashholding is preparing to begin producing Vande Bharat inter-city sleeping car trainsets for Indian Railways.
MPs to investigate how rail investment pipelines could help the supply industry
UK: The House of Commons Transport Committee is to launch an inquiry into how the government could ensure a stable pipeline of projects and procurements to end ‘boom and bust’ in the supply industry and give passengers, staff, suppliers and investors more certainty about development priorities.
Leasing company launched to modernise Poland’s locomotive fleets
POLAND: Leasing company OnTrain has been launched to offer central European freight operators a way to replace ageing locomotive fleets, and has placed initial orders for 80 electric locos.
Railway supply industry news round-up
This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.
Second rolling stock assembly plant planned in Morocco
Swiss rail electrification firm opens Nottingham hub to help ‘ditch dirty diesel’
Matchmaking platform for locomotives goes live
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Hitachi Rail invests C$100m in next-generation CBTC
Wind Point Partners acquires Velocity Rail Solutions
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RENFE enters Italian passenger market with Arenaways stake
Railpool enters French electric freight loco market
‘Innovation Farm’ opens for testing lineside distributed acoustic sensing
British Steel opens £10m Scunthorpe rail hub
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Increasing obsolescence management expertise in the rail sector
Porterbrook raises £250m in private placement
Transport Minister backs launch of Young Rail Professionals Ireland
VR sells road freight business to focus on rail
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Devastating floods hit Stadler supply chain