31 May 2012, 05:00:00
Tatravagónka acquires bogie manufacturer
31 May 2012,
05:00:00
GERMANY: Slovak wagon builder Tatravagónka
has completed the acquisition of bogie manufacturer ELH Eisenbahnlaufwerke
Halle. Tatravagónka has bought the 70% stake in ELH which was held by Andreas
Goer, the majority shareholder in wagon leasing firm AAE Holding, and the 30%
which was held by another business partner. The participants have agreed not to
disclose the value of the transaction, which is back-dated to January 1.
Spun-out of a Deutsche Bahn repair works in 1998, ELH now has a 24 000
m2 plant in Landsberg with the capacity to produce 3000 bogies/year.
Tatravagónka is taking over 'a strong and productive company, which offers
diverse possibilities', said Goer. 'As one of the greatest manufacturers of
railway freight wagons in Europe, Tatravagónka is the right owner for
ELH.'
Sochi’s swallow starts to fly
30 May 2012,
10:09:00
RUSSIA: Trial running has started in Sochi
with the first of 38 Lastochka EMUs being supplied by Siemens in time for the
2014 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Games. The multiple-unit was due to be
presented to RZD Vice-President Valentin Gapanovich and Transport Minister Maxim
Sokolov by the head of Siemens Mobility Hans-Jörg Grundmann ahead of the 1520
Strategic Business Forum taking place at the Black Sea resort from May 30 to
June 1. To date Siemens has delivered three of the five-car Desiro RUS sets to
Russia. Two are being used for technical acceptance and EMC testing, while unit
002 has started driver training and commissioning trips between Sochi and Adler.
Formal acceptance is anticipated in November, with the first trains entering
revenue service by the end of this year. The EMUs are designed for dual-system
operation. The existing main line between Sochi and Adler, which is currently
being double-tracked, is electrified at 3 kV DC, as is the recently-opened 2·7
km branch from Adler to Sochi Airport. The 48 km line under construction from
Adler to Krasnaya Polyana, which will serve the Olympic venues at Alpika-Servis,
will be wired at 25 kV 50 Hz. Some Lastochkas will be used Kazan next year when
that city hosts the World Student Games, and 38 sets are expected to be in
traffic for the Olympic Winter Games in 2014. They will operate at 5 min
headways at peak times, offering a capacity of 12 000 passengers/h. Following
the games, some sets will be redeployed on airport express services around
Moscow, whist others will be retained by the North Caucasus Railway for use
around Sochi. The first of 16 locally-assembled sets being supplied by the Train
Technologies joint venture of Siemens and Sinara is now expected to be delivered
in the third quarter of 2014. RZD is planning to buy up to 1 200 vehicles in
suburban and inter-regional configurations, with both five- and 10-car sets
envisaged.
Indian wagon component joint venture agreed
30 May 2012,
05:00:00
INDIA: Steel Authority of India Ltd and
wagon manufacturer Burn Standard Co Ltd have agreed to form a Rs2bn joint
venture to produce wagon components at BSCL's Jellingham plant in West Bengal.
The venture will have the capacity to produce 10 000 bogies and 10 000 couplers
a year from 2013-14. 'SAIL is on the lookout for new market segments where we
can refocus our opportunities to supply more value-added steel', said SAIL
Chairman C S Verma when the agreement was signed on May 25, adding that the
railway sector requires stainless and special grade steels. The project had
originally been announced in the 2010 railways budget by the then Railways
Minister, Mamata Banerjee, who is now Chief Minister of West
Bengal.
Thales awarded ETCS contract in Hungary
29 May 2012,
11:01:00
HUNGARY: Infrastructure development agency
NIF has awarded Thales Austria a contract to design and supply ETCS Level 2 for
the 101 km Boba - Bajánsenye section of Pan-European Corridor V, and adapt
existing Level 1 equipment. The EU is meeting 85% of the €18m cost of the
project, which will enable maximum speeds on the route to be increased by 20
km/h to between 160 km/h and 200 km/h.
Ho Chi Minh City metro line 1 construction contract signed
29 May 2012,
05:00:00
VIETNAM: A contract for the construction of
the first stage of Ho Chi Minh City metro line 1 was signed on May 16, paving
the way for main works to begin in September. The 17·1 km elevated section
between Ben Thanh Market and Suoi Tien Park with 11 stations is to be designed
and built by a consortium of state-owned Civil Engineering Construction Corp No
6 and Japanese firm Sumitomo Corp at a cost of 15·3tr dong. A separate contract
is to be let for the 2·6 km underground section between Ben Thanh Market and
Bason Shipyard with three stations, while a third contract will cover railway
systems for the line. The total cost of Line 1 is estimated at 47tr dong, of
which 88% will come from Japanese official development assistance funds.
Completion is planned for 2018.
- On May 17 Asian Development Bank and the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee signed a memorandum of understanding for a US$500m loan to fund metro Line 2. Work on the US$1·4bn line began in 2010 and is scheduled for completion in 2016.
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