COLOMBIA: Last month Brazilian mining firm Vale expected to begin using the Atlantic railway network to carry up to 3·5 million tonnes of coal a year between its mines and Puerto Córdoba.
Vale bought a 8·4% stake in railway concessionaire Fenoco in April, and has built a 7 km link to its mines and a 3 km route giving access to the Rio Córdoba port, which it also owns. The miner expects the switch from road to rail haulage will cut transport cost per tonne by around a half.
AUSTRALIA: Australian Rail Track Corp has completed the Narrabri to Turrawan Line Upgrade project ahead of what it expects to be one of the largest grain harvests in years for farmers in northwest New South Wales. The A$44·7m federally funded modernisation of the 35 km route ...
RUSSIA: The first train has travelled the full 531 km length of the recently completed Pacific Railway from the Elga coking coal deposit to a port which is under construction at Cape Manorsky on the Sea of Okhotsk. The train operated on October 30-31 comprised 20 ...
