Alstom has been awarded two contracts worth around €170 million by Trenitalia, the Italian national train operator, for the supply of 25 additional “Jazz” regional trains. These new orders, which are exercised as two options under a contract signed in 2012, bring Trenitalia’s Jazz fleet to 95 trainsets. “Jazz” is the
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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
Romanian state-owned infrastructure manager CFR SA has awarded Alstom Transport – PAS Impex consortium a contract for design and installation works of hot axle box and blocked brake detectors. The contract value is RON 55 million (EUR 12.5 million). The project is financed under the Sectoral Operational Programme “Transport” (SOP-T) 2007 – 2013. The period of works
Russia’s leading private wagon leasing firm Brunswick Rail Limited recorded a 20% decline in gross revenue in 2014. Net loss in 2014 was US$ 275.5m as against net profit of US$ 28.0m in 2013, and net cash from operating activities was US$ 166.8m compared to US$ 182.6m in 2013. Its total fleet stood
The Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration (Správa Železniční Dopravní Cesty, SŽDC) has selected Mott MacDonald – Sudop Praha A.S. joint venture (JV) to carry out two studies for a new cross-border railway line that will connect Dresden in Germany with Ústí nad Labem and Litoměřice in the Czech Republic. The new railway will
On the 19th of April, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accompanied by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Transportation Minister Feridun Bilgin and Mayor Kadir Topbaş attended the inaugurating ceremony of Istanbul metro’s Line 6 (Levent-Rumeli Hisarustu). The 3.3 km line has four metro stations and a capacity of 8100 passengers/h per direction. “Now, Istanbul has
Slovenian Railways (Slovenske železnice, d. o. o., SZ ) plans to purchase for five diesel locomotives. The company is working on the project documentation and the tender will be launched this autumn. SZ passenger subsidiary, SŽ-Potniški promet, d. o. o. has a fleet of 108 multiple units (38 electric and 70 diesel), 12 locomotives (8
Georgian Railways has joined the Viking container train project, in the framework of the project partners meeting in Vilnius. Viking train is a joint project of Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania connecting Baltic and Black seas with railways. The companies GEFCO Turkey and Steveco could also become freight operators in Turkey and Finland.
TBL is the new railway freight operator to start operations on the Bulgarian railway market by end of the year. As mentioned in Bulgarian State Railway (BDZ) recovery plan, TBL is considered the most serious threat to BDZ Freight Services, since the new entrant will drive down BDZ’s revenues of by 19%. The company
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