BRAZILIAN mining company Vale and GE Transportation announced on June 5, an agreement to install GE’s Trip Optimizer on 114 Vale locomotives across Brazil.

SEOUL metro operators, Korea, Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation (SMRT) merged on May 31 following a majority vote from the unions of both corporations in November 2016.

SINARA Transport Machines (STM) handed over the first class TGM8KM diesel hydraulic locomotive for Cuban Railways Union Railways (UFC) at its plant in Lyudinovo, Russia, on May 30.

BADEN-Württemberg Ministry of Transport and Rhine Neckar Transport Authority (VRN) announced on June 6 that they have selected DB Regio as preferred bidder for a contract to operate Lot 2 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn network for 14 years from December 2020.

THE rail division of First Group, Britain, saw a 26.2% drop in profit from £72.9m for the year ending March 31 2016 to £53.8m in 2016-17, while its operating margin fell from 5.6% to 4.2% in 2016-17.

TRACKLAYING has reportedly commenced on a 1213km line connecting China’s western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with the neighbouring province of Qinghai.

THE government of the Indian state of Haryana has approved the construction of a 4.9km northern extension of the Delhi metro Red Line from Narela to Kundli.

AUSTRIAN-Hungarian rail freight operator Györ-Sopron-Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV) has exercised an option with Siemens for four additional Vectron electric locomotives.

DUTCH secretary of state for infrastructure Mrs Sharon Dijksma has approved the alignment of a new freight line in the port of Rotterdam, which will divert traffic away from the life-expired Caland vertical lift bridge.

SIGNIFICANT changes were made to the tram network in Antwerp on June 3 with the opening of an extension in the north of the city and a new tunnel in the city centre.