Railway supply industry news – Page 76
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Metro Report InternationalJorudan integrates Masabi mobile ticketing
JAPAN: Masabi’s Justride SDK mobile ticketing purchasing platform has been integrated with the Jorudan journey planning and travel booking system, which has more than 10 million users throughout Japan. The initial deployment covers Syoei Express Bus Co services, with passengers able to buy tickets directly from Jorudan’s Norikae Annai app ...
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Metro Report InternationalBergen aims to be the electric bus capital of the Nordic region
NORWAY: Bergen public transport authority Skyss has awarded two contracts for the operation of the city’s bus services with electric and biogas vehicles. Keolis has operated the city’s tramway since 2020, and has now won its first bus contract in Norway. The NKr280m/year Bergen Central contract runs ...
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Metro Report InternationalSFO AirTrain operating contract awarded
USA: The City & County of San Francisco has awarded Bombardier Transportation a new contract to operate and maintain the SFO AirTrain automated peoplemover at San Francisco International Airport. The contract is worth $220m over 10 years, and has an option for an additional five years. Bombardier supplied the SFO ...
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Rail Business UKGenesee & Wyoming to be acquired in US$8·4bn deal
INTERNATIONAL: A consortium of Brookfield Infrastructure, GIC and Brookfield’s institutional partners has agreed to acquire short line group Genesee & Wyoming Inc in a US$8·4bn transaction. The consortium would pay US$112 per share in cash, with G&W becoming a privately held company. ‘We believe this transaction is an excellent ...
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Rail Business UKAachen students scoop IMechE Railway Challenge
UK: A team of students from Aachen University of Applied Science was named champion of the eighth Railway Challenge organised by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, after successfully completing a series of on-track challenges at the Stapleford Miniature Railway on June 29-30. Open to students, apprentices and ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
East Japan Railway will hold its fifth suppliers tour at the InterContinental Hotel in Frankfurt on September 18-19, providing an opportunity for European companies to meet JR East to discuss business opportunities. The bilateral meetings will focus on topics including, but not limited to, rolling stock, track and signalling. A ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransmashholding reveals new metro car design
RUSSIA: Transmashholding presented a mock-up of its latest metro car design at the SmartTransport trade show that took place in St Petersburg on June 19-21. The ‘Metro 2020’ bodyshell features ‘innovative and super-technological’ aerodynamic characteristics as well as wider doors and an improved cab configuration. TMH subsidiary OEVRZ ...
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NewsAlstom in Motion strategic plan for 2023 launched
ALSTOM: ‘Sustained growth, green and digital innovation, operational efficiency and an agile, inclusive and responsible corporate culture’ are the aims of the Alstom in Motion strategic plan for 2023 which was unveiled by Chairman & CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge in Paris on June 24. Poupart-Lafarge said the Alstom’s current 2020 strategy ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Turkey’s Minister of Transport & Infrastructure Mehmet Cahit Turhan officially opened an aluminium bodyshell production facility at the Tüvasaş factory in Adapazarı on June 19. Technology company S&T has agreed to acquire Kapsch Group’s Kapsch CarrierCom and Kapsch PublicTransportCom businesses, subject to regulatory approval, for a price ‘in the low ...
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NewsFS Group forms US subsidiary
USA: Italian state railway group FS has established FS Italian Railways USA Inc with the aim of developing its activities in the North American market. FS said the mass transit, high speed and freight markets ‘offer interesting growth possibilities, especially in the large metropolitan areas’, thanks to an increase in ...
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NewsHybrid shunting locomotive agreement
RUSSIA: An agreement for the development of diesel-battery hybrid shunting locomotives has been signed by Russian Railways, Transmashholding and lithium-ion battery manufacturer Rusnano. RZD has expressed interesting buying 131 hybrid shunters over six years, subject to approval of the prototype. These would be used at major stations and in depots. ...
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Metro Report InternationalBombardier to open assembly plant in California
USA: Bombardier Transportation announced on June 14 that it is opening an assembly plant in Pittsburg, California. The first vehicles to be assembled at the new factory will be the Fleet of the Future metro cars that Bombardier is supplying for the BART network serving San Francisco. Intended to ...
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Metro Report InternationalEngineering and maintenance MoU signed in Singapore
SINGAPORE: Metro operators SBS Transit and SMRT Trains signed a memorandum of understanding with ST Engineering on June 17 to share maintenance and engineering knowledge. The three-year agreement allows the parties to explore various areas for collaboration that would add depth and breadth to their maintenance and engineering expertise. ...
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NewsRailway supply industry news round-up
Head of the Russian Republic of Mordovia Vladimir Volkov officially reopened RM Rail’s Ruzkhimmash factory in Saransk on June 10. It had been mothballed in 2014, but has reopened to produce lightweight aluminium-bodied hopper wagons and high-capacity container flat wagons. South African industrial and infrastructure group Aveng has completed the ...
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Metro Report InternationalHyundai Rotem plans Polish factory as it signs Warszawa tram contract
POLAND: Hyundai Rotem has signed a contract to supply up to 213 trams to Warszawa. Operator Tramwaje Warszawskie says that the order, announced on June 12, is the largest tram contract ever signed in Poland. The base order includes 123 fully low-floor trams to be delivered by the end ...
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NewsTAZARA seeks opportunities with the private sector
AFRICA: The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority board is seeking to develop open access operations to increase traffic on its network, ‘in view of the good performance by the private operator so far’. Following its meeting in Dar es Salaam on June 1, the board directed the railway’s management to appoint a ...
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Metro Report InternationalHyundai Rotem to develop hydrogen fuel cell tram
SOUTH KOREA: Hyundai Rotem has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hyundai Motor’s Mabuchi Research Institute for the development of a hydrogen fuel cell tram. The agreement announced on June 10 would see Hyundai Motor, which already has hydrogen fuel cell cars and buses in its portfolio, supply fuel ...
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Metro Report InternationalMobility Innovation Partnership launched
GERMANY: The UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 saw the official launch of the Mobility Innovation Partnership between UITP and TechnologyRegion Karlsruhe that was concluded in April. This includes UITP’s establishment of a training centre in Karlsruhe, which will reveal its initial programmes at the summit. Firms in the ...
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NewsRussian rolling stock innovation centre planned
RUSSIA: An agreement to establish a rolling stock engineering innovation centre was signed by Russian Railways, Sinara Group and technology partner Siemens Mobility at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. The partners said the centre would consolidate existing experience and acquire new expertise to provide engineering consultancy, design, and documentation ...
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NewsStadler sees success on six axles
EUROPE: Stadler says that its family of six-axle diesel, electric and bi-mode Eurodual locomotives are ‘30 to 40% better in terms of track forces’ than ‘most of the four-axle locos in use around Europe today’. Antonio García Ricos, Engineering Vice-President of Stadler Valencia, told the Transport Logistic trade show in ...