PARIS Transport Authority (RATP), Ile-de-France Transport Authority (Stif) and Grand Paris (SGP) have jointly placed a 15-year framework contract with Alstom worth in excess of €2bn for a fleet of 217 MP 14 rubber-tyred metro trains.
A milestone was reached in the construction of Copenhagen's Cityringen metro circle line on January 29, when Denmark's prime minister Mrs Helle Thorning-Schmidt and transport minister Mr Magnus Heunicke witnessed the breakthrough of tunnel boring machines Eva and Minerva into the station box at Copenhagen Central station.
THE European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to fund £480m towards the extension of London Underground's Northern Line to Battersea, which is due to be operational by 2020.
BANGLADESH's minister for road transport and bridges, Mr Obaidul Quadar, says a tender to pre-qualify bidders for a contract to supply 24 six-car metro trains will be published on January 31.
THE first tunnel boring machine on Sydney's North West Rail Link has broken through into the future Norwest station and the project is already ahead of schedule and under budget.
MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries (MHI) has awarded Nippon Signal, Japan, a contract to supply signalling systems for São Paulo metro Line 6.
PLANS for International Railway Summit 2015, IRJ's first conference being staged in Barcelona next month in cooperation with IRITS, are now being finalised with an impressive line-up of senior figures from the railway industry agreeing to take part at the event.
THE Philippine Department of Transport and Communications (DOTC) announced on January 27 that it has awarded Philippine construction company DM Consunji (DMCI) a Pesos 2.27bn ($US 50m) contract to build the 3.9km elevated section of the 4.2km eastern extension of light metro line LRT2.
MTR Corporation has awarded a consortium of Thales and Alstom a €330m contract to supply and install Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) on the Hong Kong metro network.
DELHI Metro Rail Corporation has awarded Alstom two contracts worth more than $US 75m to supply signalling, telecommunications, and electrification equipment for the first phase of the metro network in Kochi, India.
