GREECE: Attiko Metro and the Ministry for the Environment, Physical Planning & Public Works have received three bids for a contract to supply 17 six-car trainsets for Athens lines 2 and 3.
Technical and financial offers were submitted by AnsaldoBreda, CAF and a partnership of Hyundai-Rotem and Hanwha. The winner is expected to be announced in early 2009, within a budget of €155m.
INDONESIA: Operator MRT Jakarta has awarded a 4·2tr rupiah contract to Japan’s Sojitz Corp on April 17 to design and install the railway systems on the phase 2A extension of the Jakarta MRT North–South Line. The 5·8 km underground phase 2A is under construction between Bundaran ...
NORTH AMERICA: Knorr-Bremse announced on April 19 that it had agreed to buy Alstom’s North American conventional signalling business, with a deal that is expected to be formally concluded ‘in summer 2024’. The former General Railway Signal Co was established in 1904 through the merger of ...
PHILIPPINES: Finance Secretary Ralph Recto and Japan International Cooperation Agency Chief Representative Takema Sakamoto signed a ¥150bn loan agreement on March 26 for the third tranche of financing for Phase 1 of the Metro Manila Subway Project. MMSP Phase 1 is being supported by two previous ...
