RZD Logistics and its Vietnamese partner, Ratraco, which is 35%-held by Vietnam Railways (VR), have successfully completed a test intermodal rail freight service between the Vorsino Freight Village, southwest of Moscow, and Hanoi.
JOURNEY times between major cities in southwestern China were reduced dramatically on January 25 with the opening of a new direct line between Chongqing and Guiyang.
CHINA’s urban rail trackage surpassed 5000km at the end of 2017, according to statistics published by the China Urban Rail Transit Association.
SEOUL Metro, the operator of metro lines 1-8 in the Korean capital, has signed an agreement to support the construction and operation of an urban rail line in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang.
PASSENGER operations began on January 18 on the two-line Optics Valley Tramway network, which serves the Donghu New Technology Development Zone southeast of Wuhan.
KAZAKHSTAN Railways (KTZ) has signed two contracts worth more than $US 900m with GE Transportation for 300 shunting locomotives and an 18-year service agreement to manage maintenance and repair of KTZ’s 175 GE Evolution series passenger locomotives.
Tatsuo Kijima, president and executive officer of JR West, talks to David Briginshaw.
Wilhelm Patzner, CEO of Far East Land Bridge, talks to Keith Barrow.
A bilateral agreement setting the terms for the development of a cross-border urban rail link between Singapore and Johor Bahru, Malaysia, was signed by the transport ministers of the two countries on January 16 in the presence of Malaysian prime minister Mr Najib Razak and his Singaporean counterpart Mr Lee Hsien Loong.
Ashwani Lohani, chairman of Indian Railways, talks to Srinand Jha.
