Company News: Latin America

News on equipment and service providers from Latin America

• Mexibus selects NXP’s MIFARE DESFire for ticketing

  June 11, 2013
  Mexibus bus rapid transit (BRT) system, Mexico, has selected Netherland-based NXP Semiconductors’ MIFARE DESFire EV1 for its contactless smart ticketing solution.

• CSR to supply new Roca fleet, Argentina

  May 28, 2013
  The Ministry of the Interior and Transport, Argentina, has announced a USD327 million order for 300 EMU cars from CSR of China.

• Thales delivers Tetra network to Line 2 of Santo Domingo Metro

  May 27, 2013
  France-based Thales Group has commissioned the Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) network on Line 2 of the Santo Domingo Metro in the Dominican Republic.

• Contract signed for first line of Bogota metro system

  May 10, 2013
  Bogota has signed the contract for conducting feasibility studies and drawing up the final designs of the first line of the city’s metro system with a Spain-based consortium L1, comprising Euroestudios Idom and Jimenez Cano.

• Voith selects MAN engines for Brazilian passenger trains

  May 1, 2013
  Drive systems manufacturer Voith has placed an order with Germany-based MAN to provide an additional 68 under-floor, six-cylinder engines to be equipped in combination with its DiwaPacks power pack on passenger trains being built by Brazilian railcar manufacturer Bom Sinal.

• Brazil-based consortium selected for Porto Maravilha LRT

  April 29, 2013
  A consortium led by Brazilian companies CCR Group and Invepar has been selected as the preferred bidder for a public-private partnership (PPP) contract to design, build, operate, and maintain the 28-km light-rail transit (LRT) network in Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro.

• Thales secures telecommunications contract for Manaus monorail [free access]

  April 18, 2013
  Thales has won a contract from Monotrilho Manaus consortium to provide telecommunications systems for the Manaus monorail in Amazonas, Brazil.

• OHL awarded EUR70.3 million contract for Medellín's light rail line

  February 12, 2013
  Spanish construction firm OHL has been awarded a EUR70.3 million contract for the civil works for Medellín's light rail line in Colombia.

• Alstom awarded Line 5 auxiliary systems contract

  February 7, 2013
  Alstom transport has been awarded a contract worth approximately EUR20 million by Brazil’s São Paulo’s city metro company, Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo (CMSP) to provide auxiliary systems for the extension of Line 5 (Lilac).

• Alstom to deliver 20 EMUs to SuperVia, Brazil [free access]

  December 5, 2012
  Alstom has secured a EUR105 million contract from Rio de Janeiro's commuter rail operator SuperVia to deliver 20 four-car Metropolis electric multiple units (EMUs).

• Alstom-VAF joint venture to supply EMUs to Trensurb

  November 27, 2012
  Trensurb, the Porto Alegre regional metro operator, has awarded a contract for 15 four-car electric multiple units (EMUs) to a joint venture of Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) and Alstom Transport.

• Alstom, Thyssen-Krupp wins contract for São Paulo metro Line 4 provisions

  November 14, 2012
  A consortium led by French transport and energy company, Alstom, has won a BRL104 million contract to provide infrastructure for the construction of metro line 4 (Yellow Line) in the city of São Paulo.

• Thales Canada selected for CBTC in Manaus monorail

  November 11, 2012
  Thales Canada has been selected to provide driverless, communications-based train control (CBTC) for the upcoming Manaus monorail project in Brazil.

• Acciona wins station construction contract for Quito metro

  November 6, 2012
  Ecuadorian state-owned subway operator Metro de Quito has awarded the contract for the construction of Phase I of the planned metro project in the capital, Quito, to Spanish firm Acciona.

• China CNR wins contract to supply EMUs to Brazil

  October 26, 2012
  CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Company Limited, the Jilin Province-based subsidiary of China CNR Corporation Limited, has signed a sales contract with the state government of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to sell 60 electric multiple units (EMUs) or 240 train cars for USD300 million.

• Siemens to revamp São Paulo's rail power supply network

  October 26, 2012
  German engineering group Siemens has received an order worth USD44 million from Brazilian railway operator Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitans (CPTM) to modernise the traction power network of several rail rapid-transit lines in São Paulo, Brazil, by 2015.

• Alstom to supply and maintain Xtrapolis regional trains for EFE, Chile

  October 22, 2012
  Alstom has been awarded two orders by Empresa de Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE), Chile's state-owned railway company, worth EUR54 million.

• IndigoVision to supply video surveillance system for MetrôRio

  October 4, 2012
  Rio de Janeiro’s metro system, MetrôRio, has chosen Edinburgh-based IndigoVision to supply a complete Internet protocol video security (IPVS) solution for its network.

• Talgo unveils prototype vehicle for Rio-São Paulo bullet train project

  September 20, 2012
  Spanish railway equipment manufacturer Talgo has unveiled a 380-km/hr prototype vehicle for consideration on Brazil's BRL33.2-billion Rio-São Paulo-Campinas bullet train project.

• Doppelmayr signs contract for La Paz-El Alto cable car project

  September 12, 2012
  Austrian company Doppelmayr has signed a contract with the Bolivian government for the design, construction and operation of the cable car project linking the capital, La Paz, with the nearby town of El Alto.