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    Market Analysis: Driverless metro market set to surge

    2024-02-08T16:00:00Z

    A projected boom in fully automated metro projects over the next decade offers valuable business opportunities, believes management consultancy Roland Berger.

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    Future Mobility Taskforce launched

    2024-02-05T05:00:00Z

    EUROPE: Private transport technology companies have formed a Future Mobility Taskforce which aims to inform EU policymakers about innovation and start-ups in the sector. The taskforce was launched when 16 CEOs and founders met Commissioner for Transport Adina Vălean in Brussels during January. Train and coach ...

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    Grant supports wagon orders

    2024-02-03T05:00:00Z

    SPAIN: The Ministry of Transport, Mobility & the Urban Agenda has awarded leasing company Ermewa Ibérica a €17·3m grant to boost Spanish manufacturing as part of two wagon orders. The orders are for 150 Shimmns coil wagons which will be produced at the Inveho plant at ...

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    Railway supply industry news round-up

    2024-02-02T05:00:00Z

    This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.

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    Austrian Federal Railways completes purchase of Go-Ahead’s German rail operations

    2024-02-01T15:17:00Z

    GERMANY: Austrian Federal Railways’ purchase of The Go-Ahead Group’s rail activities in Germany was completed on February 1. This follows the European Commission’s approval of the deal announced in October. ÖBB told Railway Gazette International that ‘with this acquisition, ÖBB is pursuing its long-term goal of ...

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    Czech suppliers target Middle East rail opportunities

    2024-01-31T05:00:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL: Rail and urban transport manufacturers sought to identify opportunities in Middle Eastern markets during a trade mission organised by national rail industry association ACRI as part of Czech President Petr Pavel’s state visit to Qatar and Israel. ACRI Chief Executive Marie Vopálenská said there the ...

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    Co-operation to promote sustainable transport in Europe and Latin America

    2024-01-29T15:00:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL: Spanish government-owned engineering consultancy Ineco and Latin America and Caribbean development bank CAF have signed a memorandum of understanding with the aim of establishing a framework to share knowledge and promote the competitiveness of the transport sector. This includes an emphasis on the railway sector ...

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    Hitachi Rail to sell signalling businesses to MerMec

    2024-01-26T12:29:00Z

    EUROPE: Hitachi Rail and MerMec have signed a put option agreement for the sale of Hitachi Rail’s main line signalling business in France and its signalling business units in Germany and the UK. A put option gives the seller the right, but not an obligation, to ...

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    Railway supply industry news round-up

    2024-01-26T05:00:00Z

    This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.

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    Hydrogen high speed train to be developed

    2024-01-24T13:20:00Z

    SPAIN: A group of Spanish companies has been awarded funding for the Hympulso project to power a Talgo 250 gauge-changing high speed trainset using renewable hydrogen. Talgo Class 730 electro-diesel trainsets used by national operator RENFE have a power car behind each driving car containing a ...

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    Automation: Robel embraces robots

    2024-01-23T17:30:00Z

    Robotics and automation are driving the development of the next generation of Robel’s track maintenance and measuring technology. Nick Kingsley reports from Freilassing.

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    BlackRock to acquire Global Infrastructure Partners

    2024-01-23T10:40:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL: Investment company BlackRock has reached an agreement to acquire Global Infrastructure Partners, which has a portfolio including stakes in Australian rail freight operator Pacific National, rolling stock leasing group VTG and Italian open access high speed train operator Italo. The transaction announced on January 12 ...

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    Railway supply industry news round-up

    2024-01-19T05:00:00Z

    This week’s news from the global railway supply chain.

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    RENFE ticket sales competition commitments made legally binding

    2024-01-18T12:29:00Z

    SPAIN: Commitments which national train operator RENFE made to address the European Commission’s concerns regarding the supply of data to rival ticketing retailers have been made legally binding under EU antitrust rules. ‘Today’s decision opens up competition in online rail ticketing services in Spain’, said Margrethe ...

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    Financing backs CargoBeamer expansion

    2024-01-17T13:58:00Z

    EUROPE: French private debt manager Flexam Invest Asset Management has financed 40 wagons which CargoBeamer is using to transport non-craneable lorry semi-trailers by rail, principally between Calais and Perpignan. This includes 24 wagons manufactured at a plant which CargoBeamer opened in Erfurt in 2022 to produce ...

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    TXM Plant goes into administration

    2024-01-17T13:42:00Z

    UK: Wigan-based road-rail vehicle leasing company TXM Plant has gone into administration, with Clare Boardman and Kristian Shuttleworth of Teneo Financial Advisory Ltd appointed as joint administrators. In a message to affected employees, General Secretary of the RMT union Mick Lynch said the collapse of TXM ...

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    Raildiary becomes Gather as it targets other sectors

    2024-01-17T04:00:00Z

    UK: Rail infrastructure data capture and analysis software company Raildiary has rebranded as Gather, as it seeks to expand into the road, utilities, renewable energy and aviation sectors. Clients of Manchester-based Raildiary include Network Rail, Balfour Beatty and Morgan Sindall. The software has been used on ...

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    RENFE28 management strategy approved

    2024-01-16T13:00:00Z

    SPAIN: Innovation, digitalisation, boosting public services, leadership in the high speed market, profitability of the freight sector and the improvement of production processes are key objectives outlined in the RENFE28 management strategy which was approved by the national operator’s board on January 12. The four-year plan ...

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    Rail Business UK

    Rail Forum joins European Railway Clusters Initiative

    2024-01-16T04:00:00Z

    UK: Rail Forum has joined the European Railway Clusters Initiative, a b2b networking organisation which brings customers and the supply chain together across Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the UK. Rail Forum ...

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    Greenbrier regroups operations by geography

    2024-01-15T13:00:00Z

    GREENBRIER: Wagon manufacturer The Greenbrier Companies has unveiled a new operations structure intended to support its Better Together strategy announced in April 2023. The company said the ‘streamlined’ organisation was designed to drive organisational effectiveness, improve efficiency, leverage best practice and improve customer experience to drive ...