Having won its first contract for LRVs in North America earlier this year, Alstom has high hopes of winning more business. Guillaume Mehlman, president of Alstom Transport North America, explained his strategy and some of the nuances of this market to David Briginshaw.
THE government of the Brazilian state of São Paulo announced on September 10 that will re-issue bidding documents for construction, operation and maintenance of São Paulo metro Line 6 on September 13.
THE funding arrangements have been announced for the PPP deal for Siemens to supply 1140 emu cars for Britain's Thameslink project.
Hyderabad is one of the first cities in India to adopt a public-private partnership model for its metro network, which is claimed to be the world's largest metro PPP.
THE Mauritian Ministry of Public Infrastructure has invited expressions of interest for a design-build-operate-maintain PPP concession for the planned light rail line between the island's capital Port Louis and Curepipe.
PERU's private investment agency Proinversión issued tender documents on January 16 for the PPP concession to finance, build, and operate the second metro line in the capital Lima.
THE Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for a design, build, finance, operate and maintain public-private partnership contract for the initial phase of the region's light rail project.
A ceremony was staged today by French Rail Network (RFF) and Eiffage to mark the start of construction of the 182km Bretagne-Pays de la Loire high-speed line.
FRENCH Rail Network (RFF) has signed a 25-year public-private partnership (PPP) contract with the OC'Via consortium to build and maintain France's first mixed-traffic high-speed line.
THE federal government is reportedly looking to implement the construction of a Reais 1.2bn ($US 657m) railway from Brasilia to Anápolis and Goiânia as a finance-build-operate PPP. The line would be 190km long with a maximum operating speed of 160km/h.
