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Railway Market Forum invites you to the international conference “Prospects for the Locomotive Market in Poland: Forum of Investors and Manufacturers”. The event will take place on the 18th of March 2010 in Victoria Sofitel hotel in Warsaw.
02/03/2010 16:48
Europe: Deregulation in European Long-Distance Passenger Rail Transport: New Competitors in Existing Markets
European long-distance passenger rail transport operators are facing a significant increase in competition dynamics. Start-ups and foreign competitors are increasingly attacking the (former) state railways in their domestic markets. International competition is intensifying in local rail transport. SCI Verkehr expects a consolidation of the urban rail transport and local transport market.
Europe: Deregulation in European Long-Distance Passenger Rail Transport: New Competitors in Existing Markets
From the first of March, Otto G. Niederhofer is the new member of the management board of DB Schenker. The company’s supervisory board appointed him as a head of newly created Region Central Production Companies.
Slovakian Railways ZSSK canceled trains which would travel between Vienna and Bratislava on the 7th of March.
A total of five bids were submitted in a tender for delivery of 37 EMUs and 7 DMUs to the Latvian passenger operator Pasazieru vilciens.
The Swiss company Stadler Rail is building the biggest and the most powerful rack-and-pinion locomotive in the world. The vehicle will operate in MRS Logistica S.A., the Brazilian cargo operator.
PCC Intermodal S.A. announced, that on the first of March it finished the tender procedure, which started in December 2009. The aim of the tender was to choose the main contractor for building of the modern transshipment terminal in Kutno.
On the 30th of May 2010, Ukrainian Railways Ukrzaliznytsia will introduce separate compartments for men and women.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced, that it will grant a PLN 99m (EUR 23.6m) loan to Miejskie Przedsiebiorstwo Komunikacyjne (MPK - Cracow Public Transport Company) for infrastructure upgrade.
On the 26th of February, Hungarian Railways MAV announced the German company Funkwerk IT GmbH as a winner of the HUF 933m (EUR 3.47m) worth order for building the traffic control IT system.
On the 1st of March begins the visit of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to France. During his meeting with the French president Nicolas Sarkozy an agreement will be signed on selling 25% stake in Transmashholding to Alstom.
Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos geležinkeliai) were ordered by the arbitration court to pay EUR 19.87m compensation to Orlen Lietuva, the subsidiary of Polish PKN Orlen.
On the first of March, the local government of Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) province should announce a tender for delivery of new EMUs. The authorities plan to allocate PLN 488m (EUR 123.8m) for this purpose.
On the 27th of February in Sochi took place a meeting on the implementation and financing sources of Russian Railways’ investment program. It was chaired by the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (HLB), the German regional rail operator, has placed a EUR 65m worth order for 23 new Coradia Lint trains, produced by Alstom Transport.
