MEXICO City’s Collective Transport System (STC) has awarded a €164m contract to CAF Mexico for 10 nine-car rubber-tyred metro trains for Line 1.
A full-size mock-up of the forthcoming Alstom Metropolis train for Guadalajara metro Line 3 was unveiled in the city’s northern district of Zapopan on August 9 by Mr Rodolfo Guadalajara Gutiérrez, managing director of metro operator Siteur, and the governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco Mr Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz.
MEXICO's Federal Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) has awarded a consortium of Spanish and Mexican companies a Pesos 942m ($US 54.7m) contract to construct train maintenance facilities for the 57.7km Mexico City - Toluca interurban passenger line, which is due to open next year.
THE government of the Federal District of Mexico City is planning to launch tenders on March 24 for a contract to supply 15 new rubber-tyred trains for metro Line 1.
IRJ at the UIC ERTMS world conference Brussels. The application of automatic train operation (ATO) in conjunction with ETCS Level 2 is being pioneered on a new line project in Mexico, well ahead of its adoption in Europe.
BOMBARDIER ended 2015 announcing an important development: Canadian pension fund La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) will acquire a 30% stake in Bombardier Transportation to become a second shareholder alongside our parent company Bombardier, which will retain a 70% majority stake. La Caisse is a globally-invested pension fund and one of the largest institutional investors in North America.
LINE 12 of the Mexico City metro is fully operational again after nearly two years of repairs to track which resulted in the closure of 11 stations on the elevated section of the 20-station east-west line.
THE government of the Federal District of Mexico City has awarded a contract to carry out civil works on the 3.9km western extension of metro Line 12 to a consortium of Prodemex, Mexico, and Proacon, Spain.
MEXICO's Federal Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) has agreed to pay $US 1.3m in damages to China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) for costs incurred in bidding for the cancelled Mexico City – Queretaro high-speed line.
ELECTRO-MOTIVE Diesel (EMD) has delivered the first 10 units from a batch of 19 SD70ACe six-axle diesel-electric locomotives ordered last year by Ferromex.
