Harsco has secured orders worth over $US 25m from customers in the United States, Canada and Australia for Mark VI ballast tampers, ballast regulators, and track stabilisers.
Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) has secured an $US 83.1m loan guarantee from the Export-Import Bank of the United States to purchase six EMD locomotives built in the United States,
CAIRO added a third line to its metro network on February 21, with the opening of the initial 4.3km five-station section of Line 3 between Abbasiya and an interchange with Line 2 at Attaba.
Hyundai Rotem has awarded Thales a contract to supply communications-based train control (CBTC) on the 12km extension of the Sin Bundang metro line from Jeongia to Gwanggyo.
CSR has been awarded a contract to supply 23 five-car trains for Metro Line 2.
Bombardier Transportation Australia has awarded Balfour Beatty Rail a $A 14m ($US 14.6m) contract to provide the overhead catenary system for the first 13km phase of the Gold Coast LRT.
TRAFFIC on the Betuweroute, the dedicated freight line from Rotterdam to the German border near Emmerich, increased by 30% in 2011 to 23,000 trains.
The first 4.1MW diesel freight locomotive jointly designed by Indian Railways' Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) in Varanasi, EMD, and India's Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO) will be completed soon.
KiwiRail is increasing capacity on the North Island between Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga, the country's second busiest container port.
Plans to invest $US 2.33bn in 167 new metro trains are likely to be abandoned because the abolition of the city's car ownership tax has caused a funding shortfall.
