TURKEY: Ansaldo STS has won a contract to supply ETCS Level 1 signalling, telecommunications and automation systems to the Salini Costruttori/GCF/Kolin joint venture which is upgrading the line between Gebze and Köseköy as part of the Istanbul - Ankara high speed project. Completion is scheduled for 2014.
Under a separate contract, Ansaldo STS will supply ETCS Level 1 onboard equipment for the 80 electric locomotives which TCDD ordered from Hyundai Rotem in December 2010.
TURKEY: Transport Minister Binali Yildirim confirmed on December 30 that contracts had been signed to build a 75 km mixed-traffic high speed line from Bilecik to Bursa, and that civil works would start this year.
TURKEY: Italian firm Salini Costruttori has won a €146·8m contract to modernise one of the busiest sections of the Ankara - Istanbul route.
TURKEY: National railway TCDD has awarded Alstom a €89m contract to supply signalling and telecoms for a project to raise speeds to 160 km/h on the 238 km line west from Eskisehir to Kütahya and Bal?kesir.
BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: A joint venture of Spanish companies Ardanuy Ingeniería, Eptisa and IPSA has been awarded a €3·6m, 24-month contract to undertake preliminary and main studies and related design for the modernisation of the 172 km Doboj – Sarajevo section of Pan-European Corridor Corridor Vc, ...
CHINA: A series of new line openings has driven an increase in services across the country with the introduction of a new national timetable on July 1. The 143 km Shanghai – Nantong line has been designed for 200 km/h operation and includes a 1 092 ...
BELARUS: President Aleksandr Lukashenko officially marked the start of electric operation on the first 36 km of the 141 km Zlobin – Barbarou – Mazyr line with a ceremony at Svietlahorsk-na-Biarezinie station on June 21. The 25 kV 50 Hz electrification project ...
