Category: Doing railway business

Council of UE not in favour of further separation between infrastructure managers and railway undertakings

09/03/2012 | Comments (0)

Council of the European Union adopted its first-reading position on single European railway area directive, which is the recast merging and amending the three directives of the “first railway package” on the development of European railways. Whilst agreeing with the objective of the recast proposal, the Council considers a number of its provisions to be [...]

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Delay in the delivery of SBB trains

09/03/2012 | Comments (0)

The delivery of the 59 double-decked units manufactured by Bombardier for the Swiss company SBB will be postponed by four months, according to the information provided by SBB. The trains should be available at the end of 2013. SBB said that if the delivery is not further extended, there will be no serious consequences in [...]

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China will not privatise the Railways

09/03/2012 | Comments (0)

The Chinese Government said it had no intention at present to privatize the nation’s railways. Sun Yongfu, a former vice railways minister, says the government is looking at privatizing China’s railways, but says this will not happen in the near future. “The reform of China’s railway policies is still ongoing but we have yet sorted [...]

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Luka Koper extends railway transport service to Russia

09/03/2012 | Comments (0)

Luka Koper announced it has extended its container transport service between the Port of Koper (Slovenia) and Poland up to Russia. Luka Koper provides weekly connection between Koper and Doborwa Gornicza (Poland) operated by Baltic Rail with Adria Transport and LTE. The extension of the service consists in a weekly railway connection between  Slawkow (Poland) [...]

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PKP prolongs the tender deadline for TK Telekom

09/03/2012 | Comments (0)

Poland’s railway operator PKP prolonged the deadline for submitting binding offers for its communications unit TK Telecom to April 2. PKP has shortlisted six bidders interested in TK Telekom and expects binding offers in early 2012. Source: www.gpwinfostrefa.pl Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Print for [...]

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