01 June 2010 — Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda recently inaugurated a 75-kilometer stretch of railway line that connects the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif to the country’s bustling northern border with Uzbekistan.
Japan: JR Central is to spend ¥87bn rebuilding its Hamamatsu high speed train maintenance depot to increase the degree of automation and vehicle throughput. Taiwan: Femco has ordered six bogie rotators, a wheel drop and two bogie presses from Mechan for the Taipei airport rail link. UAE: Hong Kong's MTR Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding […]
FRANCE: Alstom Transport has received an order to supply Paris transport operator RATP with an additional 25 Citadis trams. To be delivered in 2012 for use on Line T3, they will be 44 m long with space for more than 300 passengers, including 78 seated. The firm contract announced on September 6 was placed within a framework agreement signed in December 2003 […]
JORDAN: Following the completion of a feasibility study by BNP Paribas, Minister of Transport Alaa Batayneh hopes to call tenders this year for development of three routes totalling 1080 km under a PPP concession. The government began land acquisition last year, and construction is expected to begin in 2011 with the first lines opening in 2014-15. The minist […]
If 40k of tracks are ready to go, the entire project could be completed by sometime this fall!