CHINESE rolling stock supplier CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Rail Transport (NPRT) announced on June 23 that it has signed three contracts with a total value of Yuan 3.15bn ($US 480m) to supply metro trains and trams to three Chinese cities.
A TRIAL intermodal train from the Chinese port of Lianyungang to Herne in Germany's Ruhr region arrived at its destination on June 21 having completed the 11,300km journey across Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland in 17 days.
THE first Silkworm low-floor LRV for the initial phase of the light rail network in the Songiang district of Shanghai was unveiled at the Rail+Metro China exhibition in Shanghai on June 14.
GERMAN Rail (DB) has signed memorandums of understanding with CRRC, China Railway and the city of Dalian, expanding its presence in the Chinese railway market.
THE Pakistan government has approved a $US 8.2bn project to upgrade the 1872km Karachi - Peshawar main line by 2021, 85% of which will be funded by a concessionary loan from China the terms of which will now be negotiated.
THE Chinese city of Dongguan, which has a population of 8.2 million, started trial operation on its first metro line on May 27 following the approval of the municipal government.
CHINA's top economic planner the National Development and Reform Commission has given the go-ahead for a high-speed line linking Jiaozuo near Zhengzhou in Henan province with Taiyuan, the provincial capital of neighbouring Shanxi.
CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles plans to start a six-month testing programme with China's first hybrid-power train at the China Academy of Railway Sciences in June. The train is currently undergoing technical debugging in Jilin province.
TRIAL passenger operation began on May 18 on the first metro line in Fuzhou, the capital of China's southeastern Fujian province.
SHANGHAI Shentong Metro Group has awarded a €46m contract to Alstom to modernise 68 metro cars operating on Line 5 of the Shanghai metro and to supply traction equipment for 198 new cars.
