Kazakhstan Railways and GE sign rail agreement
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (Kazakhstan Railways) and General Electric Transportation signed an agreement for the acquisition of 50% of the shares […]
Freight
Alstom to provide maintenance to freight locomotives in Mexico
Alstom has been awarded a contract by Ferromex (Grupo Mexico) to provide preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance for 219 freight […]
Union Pacific acquires Railex assets
Union Pacific announced the acquisition of Railex LLC’s refrigerated and cold storage distribution assets in Delano, California, Wallula, Washington and […]
Texmaco and Kalindee Rail’s merger receives approval
Texmaco Rail & Engineering and Kalindee Rail Nirman (Engineers) have received Delhi High Court’s approval to merge. Texmaco, a Kolkata-based […]
UTLC poised to triple rail freight between China, EU by 2020
The potential of the United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLC) allows tripling the volume of freight transport between China and […]
China presented diesel locomotives for Kenya’s SGR
The three types of standard gauge diesel locomotives for Kenya Railways were presented at in Qishuyan, Jiangsu, China. The locomotives […]
Icahn Enterprises announces definitive agreement to sell American Railcar Leasing
US company Icahn Enterprises announced entrance into a definitive agreement to sell its indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary American Railcar Leasing to […]
Moldovan Railways launched freight locomotives tender
Moldovan Railways announced the tender for the acquisition of 12-15 freight locomotives and the upgrade of Basarabeasca depot facilities. This […]
Wabtec acquires Workhorse Rail
Wabtec Corporation has acquired Workhorse Rail LLC, a supplier of engineered freight car components. The company has annual sales of […]
Gothenburg Port Line is expanded to a double-track line
The Gothenburg Port Line was, until recently, a single-track line. To handle the demand for increased capacity, it needed to […]