In brief Mineral volumes fuel Transnet revenue rise
RANSNET officials were all smiles at the South African rail and logistics interim results presentation last month as revenue continues to rise on the back of increased rail shipments. The state-owned-company reported a 7.5% surge in railfreight volumes to 103 million tonnes, giving the utility an 11% boost in revenues to Rand 24.9bn ($US 2.88bn) for the six months to the end of September. After tax profit, however, was down 25% to Rand 1.8bn, partly a result, says CEO Mr Brian Molefe, of the company’s spending spree on new locomotives and infrastructure. Transnet is currently conducting a Rand 300bn investment programme with some 80% of the new investment in rail which goes some way to explaining the 35% surge in capital expenditure to Rand 12.8bn. Much of that money has
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been spent on the heavy-haul ore and coal lines. Traffic was up 11.2% and 7.8% respectively on these routes, but there may be a red signal ahead for coal traffic as falling prices put pressure on miners. Transnet says it is pleased that its scheduled train operating model appears to be paying off. The new model was introduced on its
containers and automotive unit trains where traffic increased
19% to 5 million tonnes. Transnet signed a Rand 2.6bn ($US 298m) contract with CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive, China, on October 22 for 95 dual-voltage electric locomotives, for TFR’s general freight business. CSR is a 70% partner in the consortium, which will be known as CSR E-loco Supply, with local partner Matsetse Basadi owning the remaining 30%. The locomotives will be delivered between December 2013 and September 2014.
Abellio wins German regional contract Australia
TasRail has ordered a fleet of 191 freight wagons from the Australian subsidiary of CNR, China. Delivery of the new wagons is expected to start in the middle of next year. The order comprises 36 ore, 17 coal, 18 cement and 120 container wagons.
Belarus
Belarus Railways (BC) has awarded CZ Loko, Czech Republic, a contract worth almost É20m to supply 20 two-axle 1520mm-gauge diesel shunting locomotives. The 403kW units will be produced as kits by CZ Loko in the Czech Republic and shipped to Belarus for final assembly.
Britain
Crossrail has awarded a £50m contract to a joint venture of Siemens and Invensys Rail for a CBTC system on the central section of the new £14.8bn line from the west of Paddington to Liverpool Street and Abbey
Wood. GBRf has purchased three EMD class 66 diesel
locomotives which have been in storage in Rotterdam after a European customer failed to fulfil its financial obligations.
China
BELLIO Rail NRW, a subsidiary of Netherlands Railways (NS), has won a major 15-year contract to operate regional services in eastern Germany. From December 2015, Abellio will take over from DB Regio as operator of the Saale - Thuringia - Southern Harz network, which covers around 9.25 million train-km per year on services linking Halle (Saale) with Nordhausen, Kassel, Lutherstadt Eisleben, Weimar, Erfurt, and Eisenach. The contract also includes regional services from Leipzig to Erfurt and Jena/Saalfeld,
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which will be operated using new 160km/h electric trains. Abellio will operate a new timetable designed to fit with the Leipzig/Halle - Erfurt section of the new Leipzig - Ebensfeld (Bavaria) high-speed line which will open in 2015. Abellio will operate the
regional express route from Halle (Saale) to Kassel and to Erfurt as one train, dividing or joining en route at Sangershausen. The new timetable is designed to maximise connections between regional trains and long- distance services in Erfurt, Leipzig and Halle (Saale).
A 10-year agreement was signed in Beijing on October 17 between AnsaldoBreda and CNR Dalian, licensing the Italian company’s Sirio low- floor LRV for production in China. The deal is worth around É200m to AnsaldoBreda and authorises the production of up to 600
LRVs for Chinese cities. CSR reported a third quarter profit of Yuan 934m ($US 149m), a 21% year-on-year increase. Revenues were also up by 14% year-on-year to Yuan 21.4bn, following above expected passenger coach delivery and other non-rail business which offset below- estimate metro and locomotive sales.
Germany
DB Networks has signed contracts worth É60m for five breakdown cranes. Tatravagonka will supply
bogies, Gföllner superstructures and Kirow three 160-tonne, and two 100-tonne cranes. The new cranes will be delivered over the next six years and will replace vehicles dating from the 1970s.
Hungary
Construction is underway of a new production facility at Stadler’s Szolonok plant that will increase capacity from 220 to 370 car bodies per year, and establish a new bogie maintenance centre. Stadler has invested É12.7m in the project which will be completed next year.
India
Indian Railways is looking to invest Rs 10bn ($US 186.3m) in manufacturing equipment for bogies and wheels at a new coach factory at Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh state. A global tender is expected to be announced next year. The plant, which has received an investment of Rs 7bn, recently began assembly of coach bodies and bogies produced at the coach plant at Kapurthala and expects to roll out 1000 coaches annually when fully functional.
Italy
Trenitalia has awarded Bombardier a contract to modernise 110 30-year-old regional passenger coaches. The programme includes upgrades to doors, bogies and air-conditioning systems and replacement of interiors. The coaches will return to service between April 2013 and November 2014.
Morocco
The Ministry of Transport has issued a tender for design, development, testing and commissioning of a GSM-R system on Moroccan National Railways’ (ONCF) network.
Turkey
Turkish State Railways (TCDD) has selected Alstom in a É22.3m, two-year maintenance contract for 12 250km/h trains built by CAF which have been in operation on the Ankara - Eskisehir and Ankara - Konya lines since 2009. IRJ
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