Russian UVZ-Logistic, part of Uralvagonzavod, El Grupo Empresarial de la Industria Sidero-Mecánica’ (GESIME), a Cuban ferrous metallurgy and machine-building group, and Cuban Union Railways (UFC) have signed an agreement on the creation of a joint transportation logistics company and the modernization of ‘Planta Mecanica’ machine-building plant. The new joint Russian-Cuban company (TLK) aims to to improve
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On 2 March 2015, the Alstom Coradia Lint trains delivered to OC Transpo entered into service on the 8-kilometre light rail O-Train Trillium Line in Ottawa, Canada. In 2012, OC Transpo, the urban transit service for the City of Ottawa, entrusted Alstom with the supply of six Coradia Lint diesel
Alstom signed a contract with Empresa de Trens Urbanos de Porto Alegre (Trensurb) to provide preventive maintenance for 15 metro trains. The contract is worth around EUR 2 million and covers 5-year maintenance starting from this month. The metro trains are Metropolis ordered to Alstom through FrotaPoa’s consortium1 in 2012.
DANOBATGROUP will supply Greenbrier Rail Services with two cutting-edge pieces of equipment for its railway axle maintenance depots. The order for a portal lathe for re-profiling wheel sets and a high performance grinding machine for axle machining reinforces the group commitment to the North American market. Both developments will give
The UK government has reached agreement for the sale of its entire interest in Eurostar International Limited (“Eurostar”) to an Anglo-Canadian consortium for £757.1m. A consortium comprising Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and Hermes Infrastructure has agreed to acquire government’s 40% stake in Eurostar for £585.1m. The
Kapsch has been selected to provide the TETRA radio infrastructure for a new metro line (Line 4) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Selected by project lead ENG (www.eng.it) to deliver the TETRA radio network, Kapsch will provide four base stations,30 in-train cab radios and 140 hand-held portable radios. The TETRA network will be delivered by Kapsch from
For the maintenance of its latest rail vehicles, the “Société de Transport de Montréal” (STM) (Montreal Transit Corporation) has equipped itself with heavy-duty lifting jacks from Pfaff-silberblau Verkehrstechnik of Kissing/Germany. In May 2014, a jacking system from the German railway technology specialist was installed at the STM Youville depot in
The Greenbrier Companies announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire a 19.5% ownership in Amsted-Maxion Hortolandia, the leading railcar manufacturer in South America, for $15 million. The agreement also provides Greenbrier with an option to acquire an additional 40.5% ownership interest, to be exercised no later than September 30, 2017. The
California High-Speed Rail Authority joined hundreds of supporters and government, student, community, transportation, business and labor leaders to break ground on the nation’s first high-speed rail system. “We now enter a period of sustained construction on the nation’s first high-speed rail system—for the next five years in the Central Valley and for a
The Greenbrier Companies announced that it received new orders in its first quarter ended November 30, 2014 for 14,100 railcar units valued at USD 1.24 billion. Orders for the quarter include small-cube covered hopper cars for sand and cement transportation, boxcars, double-stack intermodal units, automobile carrying cars, gondolas and tank
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