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[video] India’s new railways

Apr 10, 2013 7:57am by beyondbrics

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The railway system in India has fascinated and frustrated its users since Victorian times. Nowadays, the Delhi Metro is touted as a beacon of success in a nation that struggles badly to develop modern infrastructure. The FT’s Amy Kazmin examines whether other cities will be able to copy that success with their own urban transport projects.

Tags: infrastructure, rail, transport, video Posted in Asia, India | Permalink

China lets the train, plane, boat, bus, car, bicycle take the strain

Feb 15, 2013 9:11am by Patti Waldmeir

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Photo: Bloomberg

Today the world’s largest annual human migration – the lunar new year travel rush in China – will reach its culmination as millions of people hurry back to the office, where work officially begins tomorrow. They will be taking trains, planes, boats, buses and even bicycles to get back to that cubicle on time. But some will be coming home by a form of conveyance almost unthinkable even a few short years ago: by carpool. Continue reading »

Tags: transport Posted in Asia, China | Permalink

Bullet trains in Brazil: progress or white elephant?

Feb 8, 2013 7:38pm by Thalita Carrico

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Brazil’s government knows that if there is a silver bullet to solve the country’s mounting transport infrastructure problem, it is rail. That is why it is pushing with increasing determination a proposal to build not just one but possibly several bullet trains in the country. Continue reading »

Tags: Brazil bullet train, Brazil infrastructure, infrastructure, transport Posted in Brazil, LatAm | Permalink

[video] China’s annual mass migration

Feb 8, 2013 8:04am by beyondbrics

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Every year, China stages the largest human migration on earth as up to 1bn people go home to their roots. The FT’s Patti Waldmeir reports on the phenomenal combined buying power of China’s 260m migrant workers and looks at the type of gifts they are buying this year.

Tags: China consumer, Chinese New Year, transport, travel, video Posted in Asia, China | Permalink

New Year travel: dare to be different

Feb 8, 2013 2:10am by Patti Waldmeir

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China gets a bad rap for lacking creativity. The conventional wisdom, especially among frustrated multinational personnel managers, is that it’s hard to find recruits in China who can “think outside the box” (though those who complain about that defect always use exactly the same phrase about the box, raising questions about their own ability to complain creatively).

But if they scan Chinese newspapers at this time of year – the run-up to Lunar New Year, which triggers the earth’s biggest human migration – they can find plenty of stories of Chinese exercising their ingenuity on the problem of how to get home to mama’s for the holidays. Continue reading »

Tags: Chinese New Year, transport Posted in China | Permalink

Warsaw Modlin’s bleak outlook

Jan 22, 2013 6:32pm by Jan Cienski

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Air travellers frustrated at delays in London, Paris and Frankfurt can put their woes in perspective – Warsaw’s suburban Modlin Airport looks like it will be shut for several months, playing havoc with the finances of the low-cost carriers using the new airport.

The reason is that Modlin’s newly-built but already crumbling runway is not fit to accommodate the large airliners that are supposed to land on it. The local building inspector is supposed to issue his verdict by Thursday but indications are that it will be closed until about May. Continue reading »

Tags: aviation, construction, infrastructure, Poland infrastructure, transport Posted in Europe, Poland | Permalink

China rail: high speed from Beijing to Guangzhou opens

Dec 26, 2012 2:53pm by Andrew Bowman

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Journalists gathers beside the high speed train of the new 2,298-kilometre (1,425-mile) line between Beijing and Guangzhou as it waits to start off in Beijing on December 26, 2012.

From 21 hours to 8: Beijing to Guangzhou

China’s infrastructure development hit another milestone on Wednesday with the full opening of the world’s longest high speed rail line.

Connecting Beijing with Guangzhou at speeds of over 300kph, the 2,298-km route halves travel time between the two cities to less than 10 hours.
Continue reading »

Tags: China, infrastructure, rail, transport Posted in Asia, China | Permalink

Rio’s dismal airport to get a facelift

Dec 21, 2012 12:26am by Joe Leahy

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Anyone who has been through Galeão is unlikely to forget the experience.

The first challenge with Rio de Janeiro`s international airport, which will soon be the country`s gateway for the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, is getting there. From downtown Rio or the tourist areas of Ipanema and Copacabana in the south, it can take hours to reach the airport, which lies to the city’s north. During the afternoon rush hour, forget it. You won’t catch your flight. Continue reading »

Tags: aviation, Galeão, Rio de Janeiro, transport Posted in Brazil, LatAm | Permalink

Thailand: BTS rides high with IPO plan

Dec 20, 2012 8:18am by Jake Maxwell Watts

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Riding Bangkok’s elevated rapid transit railway service known as the ‘Skytrain’ makes New York’s Subway and London’s Underground feel antiquated. Now, BTS Group, the company with an exclusive concession to run the service, has confirmed plans for an initial public offering of an infrastructure fund worth at least $1.6bn, which looks likely to be the biggest in Thailand’s history. Continue reading »

Tags: BTS, equities, infrastructure, IPOs, Thailand economy, transport Posted in Asia, Thailand | Permalink

Russia’s transport assets: moving quickly

Dec 17, 2012 2:33pm by Isabel Gorst

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Russian transport assets have been changing hands at a fast clip as investors bet on steady growth in cargo volumes across the world’s biggest country. Interested parties are a mixed bag that includes the usual Russian suspects – natural resources producers – as well as specialized railcar operators and more diversified investment conglomerates such as tycoon Ziyavudin Magemedov’s fast growing Summa Group. The latter has just closed one of the biggest deals of the year, buying the Far East Shipping Company for an estimated $1bn. Continue reading »

Tags: infrastructure, transport Posted in Europe, Russia | Permalink

Tallinn’s (free) ticket to ride

Nov 12, 2012 12:19pm by beyondbrics

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By Mike Collier of bne

Like the small kid at school who over-achieves to compensate for his stature, Estonia has a thing about proving itself. The Baltic state of 1.3m was the first country in the world to introduce online voting and pioneered the use of free public internet. It was also the first former Soviet republic to join the eurozone. Precisely two years after that event, on January 1, 2013, Tallinn will become the largest city in the world and the first capital to provide free public transport to all of its residents. Continue reading »

Tags: politics, regulation, transport Posted in Estonia, Europe | Permalink

Corporate watch: around the world in a Chinese bus

Oct 18, 2012 9:45am by Zhou Ping

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In many Asian countries people have been getting around for years on second- or third-hand Japanese and South Korean buses.

But take a road trip in some of those countries today, and there’s an increasingly good chance you’ll be sitting in a brand new Chinese vehicle made by Zhengzhou Yutong. Continue reading »

Tags: autos, Corporate watch, transport, Yutong Posted in Asia, China | Permalink

Russian rail freight: meet the new boss

Sep 28, 2012 12:22pm by Isabel Gorst

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Russian rail assets are changing hands at high speed as the government relinquishes its grip on the sector and new, privately-owned players compete for ownership of railcar fleets.

Sistema, an oil to telecoms, retail and healthcare conglomerate, has thrown its hat in the ring by making a whopping Rbs23bn ($742m) bid for SG-Trans, a state-controlled liquefied petroleum gas railcar operator. Continue reading »

Tags: Bashneft, Evraz, GlobalTrans, infrastructure, LNG, oil & gas, rail, Sistema, transport Posted in Europe, Russia | Permalink

Delhi to Jakarta: how to do a metro

Sep 26, 2012 12:07pm by Avantika Chilkoti

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Picture public transport in India and you may think of crowds clinging to the outside of a moving train – hardly a model of safety and efficiency.

But park the cliché. The company that runs the Delhi metro is to provide management consulting services to the Indonesian government as it embarks on the first phase of the Jakarta metro. Continue reading »

Tags: Delhi, Jakarta, metro, rail, transport Posted in Asia, India | Permalink

Sofia’s metro: finally going places

Sep 25, 2012 1:08pm by Andrew MacDowall

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For many years, Sofia’s metro was, to many residents, almost incidental to the city. Your correspondent’s first foray came after a year of living in the city; his travelling companion was a Bulgarian who had been in Sofia for almost a decade. It was her first trip, too.

But a recent surge in investment has brought rapid expansion – and a flurry of investment opportunities. Continue reading »

Tags: infrastructure, transport Posted in Bulgaria, Europe | Permalink

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Tag: transport

[video] India’s new railways

China lets the train, plane, boat, bus, car, bicycle take the strain

Bullet trains in Brazil: progress or white elephant?

[video] China’s annual mass migration

New Year travel: dare to be different

Warsaw Modlin’s bleak outlook

China rail: high speed from Beijing to Guangzhou opens

Rio’s dismal airport to get a facelift

Thailand: BTS rides high with IPO plan

Russia’s transport assets: moving quickly

Tallinn’s (free) ticket to ride

Corporate watch: around the world in a Chinese bus

Russian rail freight: meet the new boss

Delhi to Jakarta: how to do a metro

Sofia’s metro: finally going places

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