This week, Club Feroviar organized a meeting with the main railway transport and public rail transport organizations in Romania to discuss about the General Transport Master Plan of Romania. The objectives of the meeting included the centralization and evaluation of the strategy which should represent a foundation in drafting the document and subsequently the infrastructure [...]
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The Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure plans to upgrades the railway infrastructure and to launch the production of freight locomotives at the production facility LuganskTeplovoz next year. According to Minister Volodymyr Kozak, a large part of the fleet of electric locomotives needs replacing as it includes vehicles manufactured almost 60 years ago. “There is no plant [...]
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The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov addressed the regional administration of the Lebap Velayat (region) with a number of instructions for the construction of the Atamyrat-Ymamnazar railway, the Turkmen government said on May 15th. In May 2011, an intergovernmental framework agreement was signed on the construction of the 85 km railway line Atamyrat-Ymamnazar (Turkmenistan) and [...]
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The Vietnamese authorities have dropped plans to adopt Japan’s Shinkansen bullet-train technology for the line connecting Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh which would have allowed trains to reach speeds of over 300 km/h and to reduce travel time to 5 hours and a half compared to the 29-38 hours at the moment. The solution to [...]
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France and Thailand are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) next month on developing high-speed rail here and modernising the State Railway of Thailand’s operations and services. Frederic Cuvillier, France’s minister delegate for transport, maritime and fishing affairs, says his country is committed to helping Thailand develop its infrastructure. The two countries must [...]
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