CHINA Railway Investment Corporation (CRIC), the procurement arm of China Railway Corporation (CRC), published six tenders on July 17 for a total of 351 high-speed trains with an estimated combined value of around $US 10.6bn.

CRRC Corporation began production at its first rolling stock plant outside China on July 9, when Malaysia's transport minister Mr Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai officially opened Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive's new facility at Batu Gajah in the state of Perak.

THE first of six regional trains being built for Macedonian Railways (MZ) by CRRC, China, was rolled out at the Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive plant on July 7 in the presence of Macedonian transport minister Mr Vlado Misajlovski, the vice governor of Hunan province Mr Huang Lanxiang, and CRRC vice-president Mr Lou Qiliang.

ARGENTINA's interior and transport minister Mr Florencio Randazzo inspected the first of 27 metre-gauge commuter DMUs for the Belgrano Sur commuter network at the port of Buenos Aires on July 7.

THE merger of China's two rolling stock manufacturers, CNR and CSR, was finalised on June 1 to form CRRC Corporation Limited, the world's largest train builder.

THE merger between China's two largest train builders, CNR and CSR, has been approved by China's Securities Regulatory Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, and according to Xinhua the process could be completed by June.