MAJOR construction works on Vancouver's Skytrain Evergreen Line are set to begin by the end of the month after the provincial government of British Columbia signed a finance-design-build contract for the $C 1.4bn ($US 1.39bn) project with the EGRT consortium, which is led by SNC-Lavalin.
LATIN American Logistics' (ALL) intermodal subsidiary Brado Logistics has placed an order for 600 additional Spine Car 80 wagons from AmstedMaxion, which will take its total wagon fleet to 2300 vehicles.
DEDICATED Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) has awarded a contract worth around Rs 33bn ($US 619m) to design and build the 343km Khurja – Kanpur section of the 1839km Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC).
SOUTHERN California commuter rail operator Caltrain is preparing to launch an environmental review of its plans to electrify the San Francisco – San Jose line with a series of public meetings on the project.
CAPE TOWN-based rolling stock refurbishment company Commuter Transport Engineering (CTE) has embarked on a major expansion of its rail activities with the acquisition of Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW) from Murray & Roberts, South Africa, for an undisclosed sum.
Deep beneath the streets of Stockholm, a new railway is taking shape which will solve a decades-old railway capacity problem in the Swedish capital. As construction approaches the halfway stage Keith Barrow looks at the City Line project and how it will transform the region's rail network.
Casablanca's inaugural light rail line, which began operations on December 12 2012, is already transforming public transport in Morocco's largest city, as Kevin Smith discovers.
Iran is currently engaged in a major programme of railway construction which will significantly improve links with its neighbours. Mr Taleb Zare, acting president and board member of Iranian Islamic Republic Railways (RAI) talks to Keith Barrow about how this investment is transforming the network.
In recent years the Jordanian government has advanced plans for a national railway network which will link Iraq with the Red Sea and Saudi Arabia with Syria, Turkey, and Europe. Keith Barrow reports from Amman on how this major regional project is moving forward.
UKRAINE's Ministry of Transport says Ukrainian Railways (UZ) has completed testing of two prototype 220km/h long-distance emus developed by domestic manufacturer Krukov Wagon Works.
