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The president of Russian Railways, Oleg Belozerov, proposed a high-speed cargo railway connection between Europe and China, allowing transport of goods to take as little as two days. “We plan to reach China via Kazakhstan and to carry special, high-profit…
China has launched its first UK-bound freight train from the city of Yiwu in Zhejiang province to London. The train, which is jointly operated by the Yiwu government and China Railway Container Transport Corp., Ltd., a subsidiary of the state-owned China…
Seventy percent of the regular train tickets for travel during Christmas and New Year 2017 holidays have been already sold, Bambang Eko Martono, the Director of state railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia, said here on Monday. “We are targeting 258 million…
The Indonesian government will give preference to Japan to build a Jakarta-Surabaya semi-high speed train project, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said. “Japan will receive preference,” he said after a coordination meeting at the Coordinating…
The railway service connecting Jakarta to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten Province, should be complete and fully operational by July 2017, President Director of PT Railink Heru Kuswanto said here Monday. The service will provide 124…
State-owned railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) has offered at least 600 old train cars to Myanmar. “We have about 600 20-year-old cars. They can run up to 60 kilometers per hour. But they need to be reconditioned,” KAI director of logistics and…
Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Acting Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Luhut Binsar Panjaitan has said the development of the Jakarta-Surabaya rapid train will use the existing track. “For the rapid train, we will use the existing…
Development of rail track between Jakarta’s Manggarai railway station and Soekarno Hatta airport is expected to be completed in 2017. “We already coordinated with PT Railink. It is to be completed in February 2017,” President director of the state owned…
