Australia: With KBR as designer, John Holland is to grade-separate rail and road access to the Port of Esperance, with the railway to be put into a tunnel. Fortescue Metals Group has awarded Norfolk Group and GE Transportation an A$56m contract to supply radio-based signalling for the track-doubling project between Port Hedland and Christmas Creek. Work on the 294 km route is due for completion by the end of this year. Brazil: With a winning bid of R$128·2m, The Robbins Company of the USA has been selected to supply four earth-pressure-balance TBMs for the construction of the East Line of the Fortaleza metro. The first two are expected to arrive in May 2013. France: Le Havre port authority GPMH has awarded Thales a €2·1m contract to supply a Pivos computer-based interlocking for its Port 2000 intermodal terminal. Commissioning is planned for July 2013. Germany: Siemens has supplied and installed a Simis D electronic interlocking to replace an installation destroyed by fire at Wolmirstedt on DB’s Magdeburg – Stendal route. The contract was worth €9m. Malaysia: Prasarana has awarded the final contract for the 17·7 km extension of Kuala Lumpur’s Ampang Line metro to Putra Heights, selecting a joint venture of George Kent and Lion Pacific to supply track and railway systems. Completion is planned for late 2014. MRT Corp has awarded Trans Resources a 283·7m ringgit contract to build elevated stations and undertake associated works at Sungai Buloh, Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh and Kota Damansara on the Sungai Buloh – Kajang MRT project. Taman Suntex, Taman Cuepacs and Bandar Tun Hussein Onn stations are to be built for 174·6m ringgit by Ahmad Zaki, and Apex Communications has been awarded a 104·7m ringgit contract covering Balakong and Taman Koperasi. Norway: Invensys Rail has won two contracts totalling £10·6m to design, install and commission signalling and Westrace computer-based interlockings for Oslo metro’s new Lørenbane link and an extension of the Kolsåsbanen to Avløs. Peru: NICE Systems has supplied security systems for the 16 stations and operations control centre of Lima metro Line 1. These include the recording of all voice communications which can be synchronised with footage from the 128 IP cameras installed on the network. Poland: PKP Energetyka is to modernise electrification equipment on the 230 km CMK line to allow the future Pendolino trains to operate at up to 200 km/h from 2014. A consortium of Bombardier, Thales and Nokia Siemens Networks was sole bidder for a 470m z More...
