DEDICATED Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCL) has awarded a Rs 50.8bn ($US 794m) contract to a joint venture of GMR Infrastructure and SEW Infrastructure to build a 402km section of the 1839km Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.
DELHI Metro Rail Corporation has awarded an Rs 6.45bn ($US 100m) contract to BEML, India, for 75 broad-gauge metro cars.
IRJ at UITP 2015, Milan. Sir Peter Hendy, who has completed his two-year term as UITP president handed over to his successor Mr Masaki Ogata at the closing ceremony of the 2015 congress.
The construction of a circular light rail line in Kaohsiung will bring more residents and businesses in Taiwan's second city within easy reach of the rail network, as James Chuang explains.
The Phase 3 expansion of the Delhi metro network reached another milestone on June 8, when India's urban development minister Mr Venkaiah Naidu and the chief minister of Delhi Mr Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated the 1km northern extension of the Violet Line (Line 6) from Mandi House to ITO.
RIDERSHIP on Mumbai's first metro line has exceeded 100 million less than a year after its inauguration, according to the line's operators RATP Dev and Transdev.
THE first two of five double-deck Kiss EMUs ordered from Stadler by Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) under a €70m contract signed in May have arrived in the Azerbaijan capital Baku.
INDIA's Pink City Jaipur inaugurated its first metro line on June 2, when the 9.6km Phase 1A of the Pink Line from Mansarova to Chandpole was officially opened by Mrs Vasundhara Raje, chief minister of the state of Rajasthan.
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Redevelopment has agreed to provide a Tenge 2.5bn ($US 13.4m) loan to fund the modernisation of the 86km tram network in Pavlodar, a city of 330,000 people in northwest Kazakhstan.
THE merger of China's two rolling stock manufacturers, CNR and CSR, was finalised on June 1 to form CRRC Corporation Limited, the world's largest train builder.