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...Transportation minister Saksayam Chidchob was suspended in March after being accused of holding shares in a construction company that received ministry contracts. He denied the allegations....
...The mood has certainly changed since 2011, when the first train on the China Railway Express — an alternative to container shipping — arrived in Duisburg and opened a new chapter in China-Europe land transportation...
...For this reason, Japan’s railway companies have established evacuation plans for railcars, and when a large typhoon or heavy rainstorm is forecast, they evacuate railcars to stations on higher ground....
...The market value of Japanese oil company INPEX and Chinese state oil major Cnooc fell by 52 per cent and 44 per cent respectively, while that of West Japan Railway declined 47 per cent....
...They laid the foundations for the railway network that would form the backbone of the countries’ transportation systems and industrial growth....
...One of the defining images of his presidency is Jokowi in a hard hat and high-visibility vest, inspecting workers as they put the finishing touches on the latest airport, port, or railway....
...At the core of Dutertenomics is an unprecedented plan to spend 8.4tn pesos on dozens of ambitious projects, including the Mega Manila Subway — the country’s first underground railway, costed at $7bn....
...A still more formidable barrier could well be the US’s Surface Transportation Board....
...Canadian National said in a statement on Saturday that “the stakes are high now”, noting that the railway was “a true backbone of the economy”, transporting more than $200bn worth of goods across a rail...
...The country is also Latin America’s fastest growing economy, with annual growth rates of about 10 per cent. The high quality of Panama’s ports sets it apart from many in Latin America....
...BNSF Railway, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, and one of the biggest users of diesel fuel in the US, earlier this year said it would test using natural gas to power its locomotives....
...(Bloomberg) - Berkshire’s BNSF Railway considers switch to natgas. (Wall Street Journal) - China seeks to apply some of US shale success at home....
...Or Rio could work with Brazil’s Vale, which is spending $4.4bn to revamp a railway from the Tete province to the deepwater port of Nacala, via Malawi....
...Executives at all four of the biggest US-based railway companies – UP, Burlington Northern & Santa Fe, CSX and Norfolk Southern – told the Financial Times that high road fuel prices were pushing increasing...
...Morten Arntzen, chief executive of OSG, a tanker company, counters: “Transportation is a really minuscule part of the delivery cost of gasoline....
...But with its wide, windswept high plains, the country also has large untapped potential for wind energy....
...There can be no doubting the determination of Gulf countries to build railways fast....
...after the sale of High Speed 1, owner of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link assets....
...The country’s trainmakers could be natural choices to supply diesel locomotives to the many railways being built or modernised by Chinese companies in Africa....
...Berkshire’s $34 billion investment in BNSF is a huge bet on that company, CEO Matt Rose and his team, and the railroad industry....
...It was then a classic high-growth and high-risk industry in which fortunes were won and lost....
...The company will also assume $10bn in net debt from BNSF....
...Any road, railway or pipeline might have to cut through solid rock at high altitude and cross deep crevasses and dense jungle....
...Bombardier, the world’s largest trainmaker, said its Chinese joint venture, Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation, had won a tender from China’s Ministry of Railways to supply 80 Zefiro 380 very high-speed...
...The Chinese thermal coal market has tightened after heavy snow in northern China disrupted mining operations and railway transportation....
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