NISz, Hungary’s national communications company, has launched a tender for the acquisition of optical fibre cables for the railway GSM-R network. The contract amounts to around HUF 5.1 Billion (EUR 17.5 Million). In March NISz announced it started negotiations with the consortium of Kapsch Carrier Com and MVM Ovit, the consortium including SELEX Electronik and [...]
“Mecatronics Research Centre of Public Transport Safety”. The construction of the project is almost completed, the main equipments have been delivered and for the rest of the equipments, the acquisition procedures have been finalized. By the end of the year, we want to commission this project. Its goal is to research on the maintenance procedure [...]
Alstom will supply its innovative Harmonic and Energy Saving Optimiser (HESOP) energy recovery system for the Victoria Line of the London Underground. The contract, worth about EUR 1 Million, is for a trial of inverting substation technology that will run until 2014. This will help make the Underground more energy efficient and will also help [...]
Kapsch CarrierCom has won another contract from the Polish railway company PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A. An ERTMS will be implemented along the E30 line from Legnica through Wroclaw to Opole. Kapsch is to design and install the GSM-R equipment for the system. The contract is worth EUR 9.2 million and the term of the [...]
The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Invensys Rail, the railway signalling division of the Invensys Group of the UK, by Siemens of Germany. The Commission’s investigation confirmed that Invensys Rail and Siemens are not close competitors and that the merged entity would continue to face competition from [...]
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