1 Rail news from central and eastern europe! http://www.railwaymarket.eu en Copyright C Railway Market All rights reserved. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/rss/logo.gif http://www.railwaymarket.eu 144 27 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. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9236 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:48:43 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9236 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. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9235 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:52:19 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9235 Slovakian Railways ZSSK canceled trains which would travel between Vienna and Bratislava on the 7th of March. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9234 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:47:08 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9234 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. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9233 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:18:59 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9233 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. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9232 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:48:32 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9232 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. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9231 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:22:30 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9231 On the 30th of May 2010, Ukrainian Railways Ukrzaliznytsia will introduce separate compartments for men and women. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9230 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:30:57 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9230 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. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9229 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:21:42 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9229 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. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9228 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:46:45 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9228 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. http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9227 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:08:55 +0100 http://www.railwaymarket.eu/index.php?p=wiecej&id=9227