Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB), a leading global supplier for freight and transit rail, announced today the company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trimble’s Beena Vision business, a manufacturer of machine vision-based wayside inspection systems for the railroad industry. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and financial terms were not disclosed.
TX Logistik AG has strengthened its activities in intermodal transport. The rail logistics company, which is part of the Mercitalia Group (Gruppo FS Italiane), operates two round trips per week for the multimodal transport provider Samskip Multimodal in its train system between Duisburg and Katrineholm in Sweden. The connection was launched on April 6.
Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has signed a framework contract with Department of Transport Victoria, Australia, for the provision of 100 Flexity low-floor Next Generation Trams (NGTs) for the largest urban tram network in the world. Valued at approximately €700 million, the contract includes supply of rolling stock and 15-year maintenance making this the biggest tram contract in Australia and in the Southern hemisphere.
SYSTRA has been selected by exo to provide professional services related to the procurement of 10 Charger locomotives that exo recently ordered from Siemens. SYSTRA’s mandate, over a 6-year period, includes project management, engineering services for design reviews, production oversight, quality assurance and support for testing, validation, and commissioning.
ONxpress Transportation Partners sign agreement with Metrolinx for the multibillion-dollar On-Corridor Works Project to transform collective mobility in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
Société du Grand Paris awarded to a consortium led by NGE with CIMOLAI, its co-contractor in charge of metal structures, the construction contract for the elevated section of line 17, part of the Grand Paris Express, Europe’s most ambitious sustainable mobility project.
The type of system or coating that has been applied to the container achieves decontamination thanks to photocatalysis, a process inherent to nature. The “Freight belongs on rail” initiative, after passing through Valencia, Alicante and the Rail Live fair, will continue its tour of new Spanish cities in the coming months of 2022.
Alstom has tested Elta Systems Obstacle Detection System (ODS) with infrastructure manager ProRail and rail freight operator Lineas in the Netherlands. Alstom, global leader in smart mobility, and its partner Elta Systems and its smart mobility spin-off NIART have successfully performed tests of the Obstacle Detection System (ODS) in Oosterhout, near the city of Breda in The Netherlands.
Siemens Mobility is moving its development and production site from Treptow to Berlin Adlershof. A modern, new building is being constructed at Germany’s biggest science and technology park on Wagner-Régeny-Strasse in Adlershof.