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Australia: The Department of Industry, Science and Resources, in collaboration with leading market players, has launched the National Rolling Stock Procurement Pipeline, an online database of rail vehicle tenders.
Australia: Two weeks ago, the mining company Rio Tinto announced that its freight train hit a set of loaded stationary cars 80 km from the city of Karratha.
Australia: The six-car train started operation between Perth and its suburbs Mandurah and Joondalup.
Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
Australia: A batch of six six-axle GT46C-ACe Gen II diesel locomotives has arrived at the Port of Newcastle from the US plant in Muncie.
Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
Australia: The rail operator Arc Infrastructure has unveiled in Perth a prototype of a second-generation autonomous railcar system developed by US start-up Parallel Systems.
The highest grade of automation, GoA4, has become familiar for metro and monorail and will soon be adopted in other segments of railway transport.
Australia: ARA has published an estimate of the total loss to regional budgets due to the lack of harmonisation in the procurement of rolling stock between 2014 and 2023. The government is setting up the relevant bodies.