PERU's private investment agency Proinversión issued tender documents on January 16 for the PPP concession to finance, build, and operate the second metro line in the capital Lima.
THE Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for a design, build, finance, operate and maintain public-private partnership contract for the initial phase of the region's light rail project.
A ceremony was staged today by French Rail Network (RFF) and Eiffage to mark the start of construction of the 182km Bretagne-Pays de la Loire high-speed line.
FRENCH Rail Network (RFF) has signed a 25-year public-private partnership (PPP) contract with the OC'Via consortium to build and maintain France's first mixed-traffic high-speed line.
The Ministry of Transport has appointed Japan Railway Technical Service (Jarts) and Yachiyo Engineering to conduct a pre-feasibility study for a public-private partnership scheme to build a 144km 210km/h line between Jakarta and Bandung.
Trains using the existing 1067mm-gauge line take around 3 hours to complete the 173km trip.
THE federal government is reportedly looking to implement the construction of a Reais 1.2bn ($US 657m) railway from Brasilia to Anápolis and Goiânia as a finance-build-operate PPP. The line would be 190km long with a maximum operating speed of 160km/h.
GUILLAUME Pepy, president of French National Railways (SNCF), today marked the completion of 10 years of work when he inaugurated the rebuilt St Lazare station in Paris. With 1600 trains and 450,000 passengers a day, St Lazare is the second busiest station in France.
THE government of New South Wales has stepped in with a $A 175m ($US 186m) bailout of the troubled $A 3.6bn Reliance Rail public-private partnership (PPP) in an attempt to secure the delivery of 78 Waratah emus for Sydney's City Rail network.
THE higher committee of Kuwait's Partnerships Technical Bureau (PTB) has approved the feasibility study for Kuwait City's proposed metro network, and will invite expressions of interest (EOI) soon for the systems and rolling stock contract.
THE Thai cabinet has approved track-doubling of the main line linking Bangkok, Khon Kaen and Nong Khai near the Laos border, and has endorsed a project to build a new line from Khon Kaen to Nakhon Phanom in the northeast of Thailand.