Based on further developing the idea of a strategic partnership in railway technology for Central and Eastern Europe, The Romanian Railway Industry Association of Romania – AIF has the pleasure to invite you to visit the shared stand of prestigious Romanian companies at InnoTrans 2010, taking place between 21/24 September 2010 in Berlin, Germany. In [...]
Georgia’s national rail company, Georgian Railway, has awarded a construction contract for the modernisation of the country’s rail network. The GEL150m ($81m) contract includes the modernisation of a route between Batumi and Tbilisi. The work also involves upgrading old wooden sleepers with reinforced concrete structures, according to Trend News Agency.
Thursday, September 2nd, Radu Berceanu resigned as Minister of Transport and Infrastructure from the current government. At the proposal of Prime Minister, Emil Boc, Anca Boagiu will replace Radu Berceanu as the new Minister of Transport and Infrastructure. We remind you that Mrs. Anca Boagiu was, for the first time, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure [...]
Romanian former Minister of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) Radu Berceanu hopes that CFR Marfă’s privatisation will help the railway sector benefit from the same advantages as the road sector, which doesn’t have a State-owned freight operator. Berceanu estimates that the privatisation process will last at least until mid-2011. On September 3, 2010, Radu Berceanu, attended [...]
During August 25 – September 18, 2010, Thalys will be selling on Ebay the old train furniture – 120 pieces, including lamps, seats, tables and trash cans. This initiative is part of a communication campaign which is meant to promote the new design of Thalys’s trains. The project for their interior and exterior design was [...]
The situation of the Polish rail transport is very disappointing, according to the statistics provided by the Polish Central Statistics Office (GUS) in an analysis comparing rail and road transport in the last 20 years. The Polish rail network is only 20.360 km long and the number of operators has dropped by more than 22% [...]
Deutsche Bahn paid EUR 2.7 Million in compensation to 23,000 passengers who suffered sweltering heat onboard high-speed trains with faulty air conditioning units. Almost 50 trains reported such incidents when the outside temperatures exceeded 30 degrees Celsius. ICE 2 units were the most affected. The company compensated the passengers with vouchers worth 1.5 times the [...]
CLT Logistics announced that, in Q2 2010, the Polish company recorded a significant growth (+20%) in railway freight transport. The tonne/km indicator reached 810 million, compared to 657 million in Q1 2010. The freight volume increased to 3.7 million tonnes. The increase complies with the company’s estimates. CLT estimated that railway freight traffic was bound [...]
DB Schenker Rail will continue to reorganise the structure of the company in order to become more adapted to the demand and traffic, shows a letter sent by the company to its employees. The new structure will be implemented next year. The German operator plans to improve single-load transport. The switchyards in Bebra and Offenburg [...]
The repeated protests organised recently by the opposers of the Stuttgart railway station determined Deutsche Bahn’s CEO to propose the organisation of a meeting in order to discuss the project. According to him, this meeting will take place in September. The decision to reopen negotiations was made together with the President of Baden-Württemberg, Stefan Mappus. [...]
Thursday, September 2, 2010, Romanian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Radu Berceanu appointed Ioan Valeriu Trică as the new General Manager of CNCF CFR SA. Since March 2009 and until now, Ioan Valeriu Trică was General Manager of Timişoara CFR Regional. Previously, during 2005-2009, he was Head of Patrimony Division at CFR SA Timişoara Regional. [...]
Thales UK today launched, at the end of August, its new ‘Rail Planner Live’ app for Android™ smartphones. With our busy lifestyles it is important to have access to accurate travel information, quickly and easily. Whether you are on the move or planning in advance, Rail Planner Live gives you everything you need to conveniently [...]
Latin America has become a priority market for the Spanish rail industry. The list of countries receiving Spanish trains, equipment and rail services in the region has increased notably in recent years. To promote a greater presence of Spanish rail companies on this continent, the Latin American Association of Trains and Subways (ALAMYS) and the [...]
The opening ceremony of a TransContainer’s subsidiary in South Korea, TransContainer Asia Pacific Ltd., was held in Seoul, the company’s press service said. TransContainer Asia Pacific Ltd. will offer integrated logistics solutions for the delivery of containerized cargo from the Republic of Korea to Russia’s regions and countries of Eastern and Western Europe. ”The Russian [...]
Bulgarian State Railways company BDZ is seeking a 460 million lev (235.2 million euro) international syndicated loan to help finance debt payments through 2014 and a turnaround to profit. The indebted company is in negotiations with the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Deutsche Bank and UniCredit Bulbank, Bloomberg, said BDZ chairman [...]
Azerbaijan’s Transport Minister Ziya Mammadov and SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev visited Georgia on August 30. Here, they met Georgian Premier Nikoloz Gilauri and Energy Minister Alexander Khetaguri. Following the meetings Ziya Mammadov told journalists that the ongoing work on construction of the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway was satisfactory. He noted President Ilham Aliyev attaches great importance to [...]
