ALSTOM announced on February 3 that it will supply 10 additional Citadis trams to the Strasbourg Transport Company (CTS) for €28m as part of a framework agreement signed in November 2014.

PORTUGAL’s minister of planning and infrastructure Mr Pedro Marques has confirmed that electrification of the Algarve Line will be completed by late 2020.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has begun work on an SFr 100m ($US 101m) project to expand SBB Cargo’s San Paolo marshalling yard at Bellinzona to increase capacity as part of the broader upgrading of the Gotthard corridor.

THE Bretagne-Pays de la Loire high-speed line moved another step closer to the start of operations at the end of January, when TGVs reached the maximum testing speed of 352km/h.

INFRASTRUCTURE Ontario (IO) and Toronto and Hamilton transport authority Metrolinx have issued a Request for Qualification (RFQ) for a contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain Hamilton’s light rail B Line.

PRESENTING India’s first combined budget on February 1, finance minister Mr Arun Jaitley announced an enhanced plan size of Rs 1.31 trillion ($US 20.8bn) for Indian Railways (IR) for the 2017-18 fiscal year and announced the setting up of a Rail Safety Fund (RRSK).

HYUNDAI Rotem confirmed on February 2 that it has been awarded a contract to supply rolling stock for the Jakarta LRT project.

FŐMTERV, Hungary, has been awarded a contract to review a 2013 feasibility study into the construction of a connection between Budapest metro Line M2 and the HÉV suburban line to Gödöllő (H8) and Csömör (H9) at Örs vezér tere.

SÃO PAULO state governor Mr Geraldo Alckmin inaugurated the final section of the initial Reais 1.3bn ($US 410m) phase of the light rail network in the Brazilian port city of Santos.

CANADIAN Pacific (CP) has promoted Mr Keith Creel as its new president and CEO succeeding Mr Hunter Harrison, who has retired from CP and is currently investigating another opportunity which could lead to another shake-up in the North American rail industry.