Dos empresas han presentado sus ofertas para optar al contrato de mantenimiento del material rodante y del equipamiento del taller del tranvía de Jaén durante los próximos cinco años. La Consejería de Fomento, Articulación del Territorio y Vivienda licitó este servicio en agosto con una inversión de 7,1 millones de euros y se suma al resto de contratos necesarios para la puesta en marcha del tranvía.

EUROPE: Combined transport assocation UIRR has published an updated position paper on the EU’s forthcoming Rail Infrastructure Capacity Management Regulation.

FINLAND: Helsinki metropolitan area transport operator Pääkaupunkiseudun Kaupunkiliikenne has selected Stadler for a major contract to supply and maintain 63 Tango Nordic trams customised to the city’s requirements, with options for up to 120 more.

INDIA: Fair Friend Group company MAG IAS has been awarded turnkey contract to supply a railway axle production line with a capacity of 60 000 axles/year for the Jupiter Tatravagonka Railwheel Factory being developed at Khurda in Odisha.

CHINA: Hong Kong’s MTR Corp held a dancing lion eye-dotting ceremony to bring good fortune to the construction of the Northern Link Main Line which is now officially underway, and to mark the start of detailed design for the Northern Link Spur Line.

UK: Tarmac has opened an aggregates materials depot on a previously unused rail-served site in Rugby which it has leased from Network Rail.