The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, held a meeting on the progress of the Moscow – St Petersburg high-speed rail project during a visit to the Ural Locomotives. The event was also attended by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District Vladimir Yakushev and Presidential Aide Maxim Oreshkin. The officials were informed on the…
Shijiazhuang, capital of China’s northern Hebei province, is making efforts to build a hub for the China-Europe freight train in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to support the region’s development, said Liu Ruiling, a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, on Monday. Liu, also the general manager of the…
The largest PKP Intercity railcar fleet contract was awarded to H. Cegielski – Fabryka Pojazdów Szynowych following a tender launched in November 2022. Newag also submitted its bid for this tender, but H. Cegielski – Fabryka Pojazdów Szynowych offered the lowest price for all seven tasks and requirements included in the tender. The contract covers…
The cumulative volume of the China-Europe Railway Express had exceeded 85,000 trips, cctv.com reported on Tuesday. So far in 2024, the China-Europe Railway Express has made more than 2,600 trips, up 5.3 percent year-on-year, and more than 1,000 train trips have been launched in a single month for 46 consecutive months. On Feb 14, the…
China has expressed strong concerns following the recent announcement by the European Commission to launch a probe into a Chinese train manufacturer’s alleged subsidy issues in its bid for a project in Bulgaria, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday. China calls on the European Union to strictly abide by the rules of the World…
China just showed off its second dragon-themed tunneller, which it said will drill an undersea railway. It’s touted by China as the world’s longest undersea high-speed railway tunnel. But that’s likely a matter for debate. A high-speed tunnel in Japan has a longer underwater section. China’s state-run railway giant on Monday revealed the second of…
As of Monday, China’s railway network has handled over 300 million passenger trips in the past 25 days during the on-going Spring Festival travel rush, and extra services have been operated to meet the surge demand for travel, the national railway operator China State Railway Group said on Tuesday. The 40-day Spring Festival travel rush,…
Network Rail and South Western Railway have completed the final phase of the installation of the signalling system on Feltham – Wokingham rail section delivering more reliable journeys to customers travelling between Reading, London and Guildford. GBP 375 million (EUR 439 million) is the value of the resignalling five-year project of work to bring the…
The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has unveiled a USD 1 billion plan to finance the Tanzania-Zambia railway in southern Africa. The proposal, which was submitted to Zambian Transport Minister Frank Tayali, comes after technical inspection work began last December. The CCECC was requested following a decision by the two countries last September to…
The Red Sea crisis has caused container shipping costs between China and Europe to increase dramatically. As a result, demand for China-Europe freight trains has increased by 100 percent since the outbreak of the Red Sea crisis. The China-Europe freight train is an important channel for the transportation of goods between Asia and Europe, and…