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Hélio Mauro França
Hélio Mauro França has been appointed Director of Brazil’s Empresa de Planejamento e Logística, a company established by the government in August to oversee the construction of 12 railways.
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Flora Castillo
Flora Castillo of the New Jersey Transit Corporation has been elected Chair of the American Public Transportation Association’s Executive Committee for 2012-13. Peter Varga of the Interurban Transit Partnership becomes Vice-Chair and Foothill Transit’s Doran Barnes is Secretary-Treasurer, while former Chair Gary Thomas takes up the post of Immediate Past ...
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Operations reshuffle at CP
Canadian Pacific has appointed three senior vice-presidents, with Doug McFarlane (photo) taking charge of US Operations, Guido De Ciccio leading Canadian Operations and Scott MacDonald heading up System Operations. The long-serving CP employees together form a senior operations team which replaces Executive Vice-President & Chief Operations Officer Mike Franczak, who ...
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Maggie Simpson
Maggie Simpson has been appointed as Executive Director of UK trade association the Rail Freight Group, allowing Chairman Tony Berkeley to concentrate on ‘political and European issues’.
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Emmanuel Moulin
Emmanuel Moulin replaced the retired Claude Lienard as Deputy Chief Executive of Groupe Eurotunnel on August 28.
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Jacques Damas
Jacques Damas takes up the role of SNCF Deputy Director-General, reporting to President Guillaume Pepy, following Jean-Pierre Farandou’s appointment as President of Keolis. Alain Krakovitch in turn becomes Director of Safety & Service Quality.
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Anders Egehus
Danish national operator DSB has completed the restructuring of its management board by filling two posts vacant since May. Anders Egehus (photo) has been appointed Managing Director of the DSB S-tog business unit covering the operation of services on the København S-bane network; he will also lead DSB’s strategy unit. ...
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Rail minister named
Following the resignation of Antonio Luna, Raúl Baridó (photo) was named Undersecretary for Rail Transport by Argentina’s Transport & Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo on September 5.Baridó had previously been supervising technical, administrative and operational affairs on the suburban lines formerly operated under the Trenes de Buenos Aires concession. The federal ...
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Eickholt takes over rail role
Dr Hans-Jörg Grundmann, Rail Systems Chief Executive at Siemens’ Infrastructure & Cities division, is to become Siemens’ Chief Compliance Officer with effect from October 1.Grundmann’s position at the Rail Systems business unit will be taken by Dr Jochen Eickholt (photo), who previously headed the Rail Automation unit within the Mobility ...
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Abelardo Círico
Abelardo Círico has succeeded Maurício Querino Theodoro as interim President of Brazilian freight railway Ferroeste.
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José Viegas
José Viegas has been elected Secretary General of the International Transport Forum, a global transport policy body based at the OECD in Paris.
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Dr Georg Kasperkovitz
Dr Georg Kasperkovitz has joined the board at Rail Cargo Austria along with Arnold Schiefer, who also retains his place on the board at Rail Cargo Hungaria. Andreas Fuchs has stepped down from the RCA board to become Chairman of its freight forwarding subsidiary Express-Interfracht Internationale Spedition.
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Jean-Pierre Farandou
Jean-Pierre Farandou, a Deputy General Manager on the SNCF Executive Committee, has become President of Keolis. He succeeds David Azéma, who has left the company to become Commissioner of State Holdings in the French government.
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Figueiredo to lead EPL
Bernardo Figueiredo has been named Chief Executive of EPL, Brazil's new multi-modal transport planning and logistics agency established by Presidential decree on August 15. EPL absorbs Etav, the state-owned company formed earlier this year to promote the development of a high speed line linking Campinas, São Paulo and Rio de ...
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Thomas Kratzer
Thomas Kratzer has been appointed Director of freight operator Captrain Germany, where he will work closely with Managing Director Henrik Würdemann.
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Paul Furze-Waddock
Paul Furze-Waddock, currently Business Development Director at Virgin Trains, will join National Express Group as Commercial Development Director in October.
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David Ferryman
David Ferryman has been elected as a Governor of Arema for a three-year term. The Canadian National Vice-President will assume his post at the association’s annual conference in September.
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Flavio Crivelli
Flavio Crivelli has been appointed Regional Co-ordinator, South, at SBB, succeeding Roberto Tulipani. Ilona De March has resigned from the Swiss operator’s board.
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Ben Martins
Ben Martins has succeeded S’bu Ndebele as South Africa’s Minister of Transport, while Sindisiwe Chikunga becomes Deputy Minister of Transport.