Canadian railway giant Bombardier has won a $203 million contract to supply signalling and safety measures for the Kars to Baku line linking Europe to Asia by rail. It is part of a consortium with the Trans-Signal-Rabita Ltd, the Azerbaijani company charged with building the line across Azerbaijan. The railway giant has won the contract […]
Work on the 450 km Mecca to Medina high speed railway is going to plan, announced Mohammed Al-Suwaiket, president of the Saudi Railway Organisation. It is set to open in late 2014 or early 2015. Al-Suwaiket inspected works last Wednesday in King Abdullah Economic City. He said, “We are monitoring the works of contractors in […]
Siemens will supply signalling equipment for the Algiers Metro Line 1 extension. The contract, worth €20m includes provision of communications-based train control, Airlink radio transmission and Digiloc train location, in addition to staff training to operate the new systems. Algiers Metro system is only the second metro transport system in Africa. It carries around 300,000 […]
Italian state railways engineering subsidiary, Italferr, has been awarded the design contract for Saudi Arabia’s Landbridge, the historic 950 km rail link between Jeddah and Riyadh. The €28 million contract covering preliminary and detailed design phases will last 14 months and include infrastructure, signalling and telecommunications. Italferr will produce studies on environmental impact, noise mitigation […]
Ansaldo STS, a unit of the Italian Finmeccanica Group, will supply its European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) signalling on the 130 km railway line being constructed between Oued Tlelat and Tlemcen in Algeria. The new railway line will be a mixed passenger and freight line operating at speeds of around 220 km/h and construction […]
Business name: voestalpine VAE GmbH Business genre: Rail Infrastructure, Signaling & Train Controls, Track Maintenance The voestalpine VAE group, a wholly owned subsidiary of voestalpine AG (Austria), is the global market leader for railway turnout system solutions. Innovative drive-, detecting-, and locking-systems for turnouts, monitoring equipment for rolling stock as well as fixed assets and […]
Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications giant, predicts a greater convergence of mobile and transport communications in the coming years. VP of the company’s Middle East Enterprise Business Group, Dong Wu, expects to see an increase in projects in the railway sector, following massive investment in the region to a value of $250 billion. Huawei has […]
In a historic move, Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), will have a driverless metro rail system operational by September 2013. More than 55 Saudi women have been trained in Copenhagen, Denmark, and will take up posts on the world’s largest women only university campus. The 14 km long automated transport network project, which is […]
By Peter Feuilherade This article was first published in The Middle East magazine, April 2013 issue. www.themiddleeastmagazine.com Until recently the region had one of the lowest density rail networks in the world, with most passengers and freight moving around by road, air or sea. In the century since sections of the Turkish-built Hejaz Railway from […]
A team of officials from the City of Kochi in Kerala, India, will visit Dubai shortly to examine the metro system project there. Dehli Metro Rail Corporation is set to begin works on the Kochi Metro by the end of May 2013, so it is undertaking detailed studies of the newest Metro systems across the […]
