According to the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) reported that Brazil planned to increase its investment in transportation and energy infrastructure in next 10 years from 2013-2022. The country needs to implement more ...
The federal government’s opening of the tender process for the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal (as reported on Transport and Logistics News) has drawn praise from the rail industry, but also attracted criticism for its questionable ...
Tags: Rail industry, Moorebank
Brazil-based mining giant Vale has reduced its coal export forecast from Mozambique by 30 percent, due to heavy rainfall affecting mining activities in Tete Province in February, according to African Press Agency. Accordingly, the company ...
Tags: Vale, Coal, Mozambique Mine
The Romanian cement market declined 0.2 percent in 2012 owing to bad weather and an unfavorable economic context, and this year seems no better as yet. Any growth by yearend will be small, and could only come from infrastructure investments ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
With skyrises and concrete constructions becoming common, as a fillip to the infrastructure industry, the tools and equipments are needed to be technologically advanced. Although, in earlier times, people had indigenous methods of carrying ...
Foreign media reported on May 11 that, in April 2013, the Indian Railways revenue totaled approximately 110,091,700,000 rupees, an increase of 13.65% compared to the same period last year of 96,871,500,000 rupees. In April 2013, the ...
Tags: Railway revenue
India's Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) seeks government intervention for construction of transportation infrastructure to carry iron ore from its Chiria iron ore reserves being developed in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand, ...
According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), in the January-April period of this year total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Russian Railways
In March 2013, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 8.9 percent year-on-year (the following growth rates of value added are real growth rates, after deducting price factors), 1.0 percentage ...
The EU and Japan finished the first week-long round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) less than a month after negotiations were officially launched. The EU team is headed up by Mauro Petriccione, Director in the European ...
Tags: Textile
Sustainable transportation involves the development of economic, environmental and social aspects. It is the broad subject related to the transport that includes vehicles, infrastructures, railways, roads, pipelines and other transport ...
From January to March 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 5,809.2 billion yuan, up by 20.9 percent year-on-year in nominal terms (actual increase was 20.7 percent after deducting price factors), the ...
Tags: economy, Processing Machinery
Transport Technologies and Kazakhstan Railways will jointly build the first rail mill in Kazakhstan. It's learned that the new plant is designed to have the annual capacity of 430,000 tons of rail and section and it is scheduled to be ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel, Railways
The Federal Opposition leader has demonstrated that he simply does not understand public transport, says the Australasian Railways Association. “Comments today that an incoming Abbott Government would cut all urban rail funding ...
Tags: rail funding, economic, Tony Abbott
In March, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.9 percent, up by 0.8 percentage point month-on-month, and stayed above the threshold for six consecutive months. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of ...