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Retail Asia28/02/2024

Siemens has expressed interest in Vietnam’s North-South highspeed railway and offered to provide vehicles for the project. Siemens president and CEO Roland Busch told Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a meeting in Hanoi Monday that the company can transfer the technology of building carriages and can provide the trailway signal system for the project. […]

Retail Asia14/04/2023

Train operator Vietnam Railways expects to earn a profit this year after posting losses in three previous years due to the impact of Covid-19. The company predicts a post-tax profit of VND3 billion ($127,960) and a revenue of over VND6.5 trillion. In the first quarter this year subsidiary Hanoi Railways served over 800,000 passengers and […]

Retail Asia20/01/2022

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Tesla is not the only company that’s run by Elon Musk. In fact, Musk used some of the money he made with SpaceX to invest in Tesla to eventually gain control of the electric car maker. And SpaceX has also been categorized by Musk as some of the most important work he is doing in […]

Retail Asia16/11/2021

Train ticket demand for the upcoming Lunar New Year Holiday is plunging due to fear of Covid-19 contagion as thousands of new cases nationwide are confirmed each day. Saigon Railway Station in HCMC opened its ticket sales for Tet 2022, the biggest annual holiday which falls in early February, but its nine counters were seen […]

Retail Asia23/01/2017

French company Alstom has signed a $340 million contract to provide 10 modern train sets and build 12 stations. Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board has signed a $340 million contract with French company Alstom for a metro system. Under the contract, the French urban mobility supplier will supply and integrate 10 train sets, each with […]

Retail Asia17/01/2017

The president of Russian Railways, Oleg Belozerov, proposed a high-speed cargo railway connection between Europe and China, allowing transport of goods to take as little as two days. “We plan to reach China via Kazakhstan and to carry special, high-profit cargoes to Europe via Russia, because a ship sails now 60 days, which is a […]

Retail Asia10/01/2017

China has launched its first UK-bound freight train from the city of Yiwu in Zhejiang province to London. The train, which is jointly operated by the Yiwu government and China Railway Container Transport Corp., Ltd., a subsidiary of the state-owned China Railway Corporation, set off from Yiwu West Station and will leave China at Alanshankou, […]

Retail Asia15/11/2016

Seventy percent of the regular train tickets for travel during Christmas and New Year 2017 holidays have been already sold, Bambang Eko Martono, the Director of state railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia, said here on Monday. “We are targeting 258 million passengers this year,” Bambang Eko Martono stated. “PT KAI will offer new additional […]

Retail Asia12/11/2016

The Indonesian government will give preference to Japan to build a Jakarta-Surabaya semi-high speed train project, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said. “Japan will receive preference,” he said after a coordination meeting at the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs here Friday. Despite receiving preference, Japan must continue to meet the qualifications set by the Indonesian […]

Retail Asia08/11/2016

The railway service connecting Jakarta to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten Province, should be complete and fully operational by July 2017, President Director of PT Railink Heru Kuswanto said here Monday. The service will provide 124 trips per day, with each train consisting of 10 coaches capable of transporting 274 passengers per trip. It […]

Retail Asia19/10/2016

State-owned railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) has offered at least 600 old train cars to Myanmar. “We have about 600 20-year-old cars. They can run up to 60 kilometers per hour. But they need to be reconditioned,” KAI director of logistics and development Budi Noviantoro said in Yogyakarta. Budi explained that his company […]

Retail Asia12/10/2016

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Acting Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Luhut Binsar Panjaitan has said the development of the Jakarta-Surabaya rapid train will use the existing track. “For the rapid train, we will use the existing network. We will strengthen the bearing pads and make the crossings run over or under, so […]

Retail Asia29/01/2016

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Development of rail track between Jakarta’s Manggarai railway station and Soekarno Hatta airport is expected to be completed in 2017. “We already coordinated with PT Railink. It is to be completed in February 2017,” President director of the state owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II Budi Karya Sumadi said here on Wednesday. PT Railink […]

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Siemens offers locomotives for Vietnam’s highspeed railway By Viet Tua

Vietnam Railways eyes profit in 2023

Former SpaceX Engineers Are Making Electric & Self-Driving Railway Vehicles

Holiday train tickets in low demand

This is what Hanoi’s first subway train may look like

Russian Railways eyes high-speed Europe-China cargo trains

China has launched its first UK-bound freight train

70 percent train tickets for Christmas season already sold

Indonesian government to give preference to Japan for semi-high speed train

Soekarno-Hatta Airport train expected to be operational by July 2017

KAI Offers Train Cars to Myanmar

Jakarta-Surabaya rapid train to use existing track

Jakarta’s airport train to be operational in 2017