Navantia buys Cometto MSPE trailers

January 2018

The Spanish company Navantia SA recently received nine modular combinations of self-propelled MSPE 48 t trailers from specialist Cometto. ...

Tags: Navantia, Cometto, Trailers, Transportation, MSPE, Swedish automotive, Solid rubber tyres

Siemens to electrify Gujarat Metro Link Express

January 2018

In a massive infrastructure boost to Gujarat, the Indian mass-transit operator Metro Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) Company has aw...

Tags: Infrastructure, North-South Corridor, SCADA, Tilak Raj Seth, Siemens, Transportation

BHARATMALA: Beyond Connecting Roads

January 2018

October 2017 witnessed the largest ever outlay of road construction in India: Bharatmala. The programme involves around 83,000 km - including the fir...

Tags: Bharatmala, Road construction, Shubham Jain, ICRA, NHDP, Kelkar Committee, PPP framework, Rajat Gupta, McKinsey & Company, Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, Karunakaran Ramchand, IL&FS Transportation Networks, Sudhir Hoshing, IRB Infrastructure Developers, Vinayak K Deshpande

We are exploring Indian business diversity to the fullest

January 2018

RaIn an interaction with INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY, Katsunori Ushiku, Managing Director, Mitsubishi Electric India (MEI), said that for transportation sys...

Tags: Katsunori Ushiku, Mitsubishi Electric India, Transportation infrastructure, DMIC, HVAC, Mitsubishi Electric, CNC, Railcar electrical equipment

Logistics sector gets infrastructure status

November 2017

The government has granted infrastructure status to logistics sector. The need for integrated logistics sector development has been felt for quite s...

Tags: Logistics, Infrastructure, Transportation, Warehousing

Digging & Rigging buys 13 Faymonville trailers

November 2017

Digging & Rigging recently took delivery of 13 new axle lines of G-SL ModulMAX and PowerMAX from Faymonville and they have managed their first m...

Tags: Faymonville, Trailers, Heavy load, Transportation

Infrastructure assets provide better risk returns

November 2017

If the Indian economy needs to sustain its growth momentum in the coming decade, developing world-class infrastructure facilities is of paramount imp...

Tags: Infrastructure, Provident Fund, Karunakaran Ramchand, IL&FS Transportation Network, Greenfield infrastructure projects, Commercial bank, InvIT, Fair Market Value, TOT, Chicago Skyway, Indiana Toll Road, EPC, Bhartmala project, Rahul Kamat

So, why do cities go for metros?

November 2017

Keynote speaker Elias George, Managing Director, Kochi Metro Rail, won the loudest applause from the rapt audience. 'In the next 20 years, 750 millio...

Tags: Elias George, Kochi Metro Rail, Urbanisation, Urban mobility game, Public transportation system, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bill