In brief
Damage claim provision hurts Vossloh F
IRST half results for Vossloh make grim
reading as an additional provision of “double-digit million” euros for damages claimed in a lawsuit involving its Transportation Systems business unit has driven the company into a loss. In addition, continuing delays to certain Transportation Systems’ projects are affecting sales and earnings before interest and tax (Ebit). Vossloh says Ebit for the full year will remain well below that of 2012. Sales growth for
RITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) has
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2013 is forecast at about 5% compared with budgeted growth of 5-10%. As a result, Vossloh expects its Ebit margin for the full year to be 4-5% rather than the 6-8% originally predicted.
The original Ebit forecast was dependent on progress with Transportation Systems projects and the shipment of rail fasteners to China. Transportation Systems produces locomotives in Kiel, Germany, and locomotives and LRVs at its plant in Valencia, Spain.
Britain orders more Hitachi trains B
exercised an option with Agility Trains, a consortium of Hitachi Rail Europe and John Laing Investments on a £1.2bn contract to finance, supply, and maintain an additional 30 nine- car Super Express Trains (SET) for the East Coast Main Line. The DfT says the contract takes the total value of the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) to £5.8bn.
The 225km/h 25kV ac electric trains, designated class
801, will be introduced on services from London to Leeds, Newcastle, and Edinburgh in 2019, replacing the fleet of class 91 locomotives and Mk4 coaches built in the late 1980s. Under the fixed-price train
provision agreement between DfT and Agility, Hitachi will maintain the fleet for 27.5 years. The trains will be serviced at a new depot at Doncaster, and existing maintenance facilities will also be upgraded to accommodate the new fleet.
National Railway Equipment Company (NREC), United States, will supply seven multi- engine N-ViroMotive
locomotives to Pacific National, Australia, for shunting operations at the BlueScope steelworks at Port Kembla in New South Wales. The four- axle units will have a nominal power rating of 1.19MW, derived from two Cummins gensets.
Belarus
Belarus Railways (BC) has signed a contract with China National Electric Import and Export Corporation for 18 7.2MW electric locomotives from CNR Datong Locomotive Works. BC has already received 12 9.6MW 120km/h double- unit locomotives, which are based on the Chinese HXD2 designed by CNR and Alstom.
Brazil
Toshiba has won a $US 60m contract from a consortium of China National Machinery Import & Export Corporation and CNR Changchun to provide electrical equipment for 240 emu cars being built for Rio de Janeiro’s commuter rail operator SuperVia. Toshiba will supply the equipment between
next month and December 2014. Federal railway engineering and construction company Valec has invited expressions of interest for a contract to supply 95,400 tonnes of rail for the section of the North - South Rail between Estrela D’Oeste in São Paulo state and Ouro Verde in Goiás. Bidding is divided into three lots, each worth Reais 136.8m ($US 61.3m).
Britain
Izmir GSM-R contract awarded: Turkish State Railways (TCDD) has awarded a contract to Huawei, China, to install GSM-R telecommunications on the 51km suburban line linking Izmir Alsancak with Tepekoy. The northern part of the line has conventional signalling and Thales is installing ETCS Level 2 on the southern section from Cumaovasi to Tepekoy. TCDD intends to extend GSM-R and ETCS Level 2 north to Bergama and south to Selcuk covering a total distance of 188km.
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Southern has selected Bombardier in a £180m contract to supply 116 class 377/6 Electrostar emu cars. These trains will facilitate a cascade of trains to the Thameslink network, which in turn will release class 319 emus for use on newly electrified lines.
China
HollySys has been awarded a Yuan 91m ($US 14.7m) contract to supply signalling systems for the Yuanping - Xi’an high-
speed line. The contract includes a traffic control centre, lineside electronic units, a temporary speed restriction server, and other auxiliary equipment.
Germany
Rhine-Main Transport Association (RMV) has published a tender notice in the Official Journal of the European Union for a 15-year contract to operate part of the Main-Neckar-Reid network in southern Hesse and Baden- Württemberg from December 2017. It covers the operation of 3.34 million train-km per year.
India
Hyundai Rotem, Korea, has awarded Saft, France, a contract to supply batteries for the fleet of 57 three-car trains for the Hyderabad metro. The MRX batteries will provide up to 60 minutes back-up power for onboard systems such as air-conditioning and lighting.
International
Eurostar achieved a 7% year- on-year increase in sales revenues in the first half of 2013, with turnover of £453m as passenger numbers grew by 2% to 4.9 million. Eurostar says adverse weather suppressed demand at the start of the year, but growth accelerated in the second quarter with ridership climbing 4% year-on-year.
Mauritania
The National Industrial and Mining Company of Mauritania has awarded Wabtec subsidiary Standard Car Truck, United States, a $US 21m contract to supply bogies for a new fleet of iron- ore wagons. The bogies will be delivered next year.
Switzerland
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has awarded Siemens a SFr 9.3m ($US 9.8m) contract to design and supply mobile reactive power compensation systems, which can be deployed anywhere on the Swiss mainline network. The 15-MVAr modules will offer power compensation, improve voltage quality and increase network stability. IRJ
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