THE Mauritian Ministry of Public Infrastructure has invited expressions of interest for a design-build-operate-maintain PPP concession for the planned light rail line between the island's capital Port Louis and Curepipe.
Casablanca's inaugural light rail line, which began operations on December 12 2012, is already transforming public transport in Morocco's largest city, as Kevin Smith discovers.
MTR celebrated the start of operations on Hangzhou Metro Line 1 in November, its seventh project outside of Hong Kong. And as deputy CEO Lincoln Leong explains to Kevin Smith, the company is committed to strengthening its external presence over the next few years.
HOPES of finally opening the long-delayed 4.7km light rail line in the Spanish city of Jaen have faded after an audit by the Catalonian train operating company FGC found annual operating losses would run into millions of Euros.
HABTOOR Leighton Group (HLG), the civil works contractor building Qatar's Education City light rail line, has awarded Rail.One a contract to supply its Rheda City ballastless track system for the project.
ALSTOM has signed an agreement with Williams Hybrid Power to adapt energy storage technologies originally developed for the 2009 Williams Formula One car for use on light rail vehicles.
ALSTOM handed over the first of 19 Citadis low-floor LRVs for Paris light rail Line T7 to Mr Jean-Paul Huchon, chairman of Ile-de-France Transport Authority (Stif), in a ceremony at its La Rochelle plant on January 12.
AFTER almost four years of delays, the president and CEO of Attiko Metro Mr Christos Tsitouras and Mr Dimitrios Dinopoulos, representative of concessionaire Themeli finally signed the contract for the extension of the Athens light rail network to Piraeus port on January 14.
CITY of Edinburgh Council has selected Parkeon Transit to supply the complete fare collection system for the city's light rail line, the final major contract to be awarded for the £776m project.
LEIPZIG Public Transport (LVB) has selected Trapeze to supply and install an integrated operations control system for its network of 13 tram lines and 61 urban and regional bus routes on which it operates over 450 vehicles.