THE Bolivian Ministry of Public Works, Services and Housing has awarded a consortium of Acciona Ingenieria, Spain, and CPM a contract worth around $US 10.5m to supervise construction of the 205km Montero - Bulo Bulo line.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) announced on February 11 that it plans to continue the modernisation of its motive power fleet this year with the acquisition of 629 new locomotives at a total cost of Roubles 76.1bn ($US 2.17bn).
INTERNATIONAL high-speed operator Thalys saw revenues and ridership climb on its services from Paris to Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in 2013 as the withdrawal of Fyra services brought an unexpected increase in traffic between Brussels and Amsterdam.
MONTREAL's Metropolitan Transportation Agency (AMT) has signed an agreement to acquire the electrified Deux-Montagnes commuter line from Canadian National (CN) for an undisclosed sum.
COLOGNE Transport Authority (KVB) and Düsseldorf's Rheinbahn have issued a joint invitation to tender for a contract to supply 66 high-floor LRVs with an option for 12 additional vehicles.
FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) managed to achieve a 0.5% increase in turnover to €32.2bn and a 2% rise in Ebitda to €2.8bn in 2013 despite a 1.8% drop in revenue from its Geodis freight business and a 1.4% decline in income from TGV services.
THE FIRST of three class DP3 three-car dmus being supplied by Pesa, Poland, to Belarus Railways (BC) arrived in Belarus on February 11.
THE United States' Railway Supply Institute Committee on Tank Cars (RSICTC) has called on the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) to speed up the process to introduce new safety measures for tank wagons carrying crude oil and ethanol.
THE prime minister of Turkey, Mr Tayyip Erdoğan, and prime minister of Spain, Mr Mariano Rajoy, presided over a ceremony held in the Turkish capital of Ankara on February 12 to mark the opening of the city's second heavy metro line, M3.
UKRAINIAN Railways (UZ) suspended operation of all 10 HRCS2 emus supplied in 2012 by Hyundai Rotem for inter-city operations on February 13, with all of the emus undergoing technical checks.
