THE Management Authority for Urban Railways (Maur) in Ho Chi Minh City has awarded a contract to the Shimizu Maeda Joint Operation, Japan, to construct a section of the city's first metro line.
KIROW, Germany, has secured its first orders for rail cranes from Japan with contracts to supply vehicles for both the conventional 1067mm-gauge network and standard-gauge Shinkansen lines.
JR EAST has released artist's impressions of its forthcoming E235 EMU, which will enter service from next year on the Yamanote Line, one of the busiest commuter lines in Tokyo, which carries around 3.8 million passengers a day.
THE National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines has approved the sole private-public partnership offer to build, operate and maintain an extension to LRT1 in Manila.
A CEREMONY was held at Toyama station on May 24 to mark the completion of tracklaying on the 228km Nagano – Kanazawa section of the Hokuriku Shinkansen, with around 60 dignitaries tightening bolts on the final section of rail.
ODAKYU Electric Railway, Japan, will be the launch customer for Mitsubishi Electric's new traction inverter with all-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules using SiC transistors and SiC diodes.
NIPPON Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NS&SMC) announced on April 16 that it has upgraded rail production and handling facilities at its Yawata steel works in the Japanese prefecture of Fukuoka to produce and distribute 150m-long rails, which the company claims are the longest in the world.
THE first meeting of the EU-Japan Industrial Dialogue on Railways, which was organised by the European Commission (EC) and Japanese government, took place in Brussels last week and provided officials with an opportunity to discuss railway-related topics arising from the continuing EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations.
HITACHI Rail has announced that it is relocating its global headquarters from Japan to London and that the current head of Hitachi Rail Europe, Mr Alistair Dormer, will be made the company's global CEO from April 1.
TAIWAN High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) has awarded a Yen 2.8bn ($US 27.5m) turnkey contract to Toshiba, Japan, for installation of electrical and mechanical (E&M) systems at three new stations.
