Brazil: CRRC has presented the first four-car metro train for the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte at the Changchun plant in China.
Brazil: The Brazilian Association of the Railway Industry ABIFER and the Interstate Union of the Railway and Road Materials and Equipment Industry SIMEFRE have issued a statement to this effect.
Brazil: According to Tarcísio de Freitas, governor of the state of São Paulo, the Chinese manufacturer could consider using the facility of the former IESA, which is currently under judicial recovery, in the city of Araraquara.
Contracts and deals in the freight car market.
Brazil: The Autonomous Track Geometry Measurement System (ATGMS) has been installed on the BB40-9WM locomotive by the developer, ENSCO Rail from USA.
Brazil, Chile: The vehicle has been shown to a delegation of the Chilean State Railways EFE during their technical visit to a factory in Caxias do Sul.
Key news and contracts in the urban rail transport market.
The Government of Moscow launched an information platform UrbanTransportData a year ago. Last week, its current functionality was presented at the International Transport Summit, attended by 107 experts from 24 countries.
Brazil: At Alstom Lab 4.0, a virtual reality lab, a 3D model of the exterior and interior of the future train was presented.