MOSCOW Metro has awarded a contract to supply and maintain 832 metro cars to a consortium of Transmashholding (TMH) subsidiaries Metrovagonmash and Transleasholding in a deal worth Roubles 144bn ($US 4.1bn).
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.
DESIGN and planning of three extensions which will add 35.4km and 33 stations to Dubai's metro network is well underway, according to the acting CEO of Roads and Transport Authority's (RTA) Rail Agency, Mr Abullah Yousuf Al Ali.
Zhengzhou's metro is the first network in the world to utilise a 4G LTE communications platform. Kevin Smith travelled to China to witness the system in action.
PROINVERSIÓN, Peru's private investment promotion agency, has prequalified three consortia for the $US 6.5bn construction, operation and maintenance contract for Lima Metro Line 2, a 35km east-west underground line that will connect the district of Ate Vitarte with the city centre and Callao on the Pacific coast.
A variety of transit projects are proposed for the Jakarta metropolitan area and other cities in Indonesia which will aid the fight against traffic congestion while improving cross-city connectivity. Kevin Smith examines the schemes.
THE AF Consortium of Ayala Corp and Metro Pacific Investments (MPIC), which recently won the contract to upgrade ticketing on urban rail lines in Metro Manila, says it will spend $US 40m on the automatic fare collection project.
The Indonesian government is pushing ahead with a $US 468bn infrastructure investment plan intended to facilitate the country's rise to the world's top economic table. However, the suitability of the private investment model touted by the government to deliver these projects remains in question, as Kevin Smith discovered during a visit to Java.
CCR, which was awarded a Reais 4bn ($US 1.65bn) construction and operation concession for the second phase of the Salvador metro in the Brazilian state of Bahia, has decided to purchase a fleet of 49 four-car trains from a consortium of Hyundai Rotem, Korea and Iesa, Brazil.
TAIWAN's Bureau of High Speed Rail (BHSR) says construction of a southwest extension of the airport rail link between Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TTIA) and Zhongli station will commence this month, while testing is now underway on the primary Taipei Railway Station - TTIA section of the much-maligned 51km project.
