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INCUMBENT operator Metrovías began operating a new 12-year operating contract on the Buenos Aires Subte metro on December 1. A possible three-year extension of the contract is included in the final contract signed in mid-September 2021.
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CP and KCS reported the approvals by the Mexican Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE) and Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) on Nov. 26—a move that Cowen and Company Managing Director and Railway Age Wall Street Contributing Editor Jason Seidl anticipated in his Nov. 23 column on KCS.
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THE Mexican Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) and the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) have both approved the planned merger between Class 1s Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS).
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Competition commission COFECE and telecoms institute IFT have granted regulatory approval for Canadian Pacific Railway’s proposed acquisition of Kansas City Southern.
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The Mexican Federal Economic Competition Commission and the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute have given regulatory approval of the proposed merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, both companies announced Friday.
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The Colombian government is looking to rehabilitate the national railway system and is advancing with the priorities stated in the national railway master plan, outlined in the administration's 2018-2022 national development plan.
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Orion High Speed Logistics, the parcels and light loads division of Rail Operations Group, has confirmed departure this morning of their much anticipated high-speed service, bringing mass-market parcels traffic back to the British railway scene.
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• Salisbury train crash: two trains collide in tunnel (BBC)
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Ballard Power Systems has acquired Arcola Energy, a UK-based engineering company with more than 10 years’ experience of integrating the Canadian manufacturer’s fuel cells into trains, buses and heavy duty commercial vehicles.
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Railways across the world are striving to deliver more capacity and reduced journey times, aiming to improve safety and performance in terms of reliability and resilience, and increase environmental and financial sustainability.
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The International Union of Railways and global public transport association UITP marked the formal transport day at the COP26 Climate Summit on November 10 by urging policymakers to focus more effort on decarbonising mobility through modal shift.
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EuroTransit Group of Companies is currently building a new intermodal terminal in Dostyk, Kazakhstan, to facilitate rail traffic at the border with China. Construction works are in full steam, and the company just ordered two Rail-Mounted Gantry (RMG) cranes to equip its facilities.
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THE Moroccan government has allocated Dirham 7.72bn ($US 852m) to renew the country’s rail network and rolling stock between 2022 and 2024.
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The world has been experiencing biblical-sized havoc wrought by climate-change-induced flooding—scorch the landscape first, then drop a “monsoon bomb” on it—resulting in roadbed washouts.
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50 “Caravaggio” regional trains are to be supplied by Hitachi Rail STS SpA following the signing of a third contract with FERROVIENORD for €451,850,000.
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The Mexican government plans to carry out 11 studies next year to determine the feasibility of a passenger rail line crossing Michoacán state capital Morelia.
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COMBINED operation of freight and passenger trains are economically feasible on the proposed 274km double-track railway between Tecún Umán and Guatemala City, a group studying the project has concluded.
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A freight train in southern Chile was derailed and some of its cargo units burned by unknown assailants on Tuesday, officials said, amid tensions between the state and the local Mapuche indigenous group demanding the return of ancestral lands.
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The fleet of Chinese-built electric multiple-units to operate Fesur’s Biotrén and Corto Laja regional services was officially launched into revenue service by President Sebastián Piñera on October 26.
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Automation of main line trains is slowly becoming a commercial reality, having been long established in the urban rail sector. However, mass adoption of driverless technology on mixed traffic railways still seems a long way off, with interim technology such as C-DAS offering many benefits in the meantime.
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VLI Multimodal has applied to build more than 1000km of new railway in central Brazil across four lines in a Reais 15bn ($US 2.68bn) investment.
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BRAZIL’s National Land Transport Agency (ANTT) has approved the renewal of MRS Logistics’ concession for another 30 years from November 2026, moving the process a step closer to completion after the technical and legal studies included in MRS’ concession renewal business plan were finalised last week.
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The Ministry of Infrastructure has now received a total of 21 applications to build rail projects under the provisional legislation designed to promote new line construction and rehabilitation under the Pro Trilhos programme launched in September.
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ARGENTINA’s Ministry of Transport has signed contracts worth Peso 2.74bn ($US 27.6m) to upgrade the Buenos Aires Constitución – La Plata branch of the Roca Line to increase frequencies and reduce travel times on the country’s busiest commuter rail line.
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