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7 trains in just 6 days. In Trento, at the railway workshop of Trentino Trasporti, GCF-Gefer’s intervention with “MobiTurn” mobile lathe allowed to provide turning to the rolling stock, on-site. A quick service, at 0 km, that significantly reduced costs and times.
Jump across the ocean for Rossi Group that concluded a few days ago, the acquisition of Platinum Track Service Inc., a high-profile railway firm with headquarters in Ontario, Canada. The acquisition and merger transaction, concluded through GCF Canada Railwork, allowed creating the new company “Platinum Track Services Inc. - a GCF Group Company” owned and managed by the Italian group.
Safety is achieved together. Firms and workers, contracting bodies and contractors. This is the common thread underlying the trials that RFI has proposed to railway firms for voluntary adhesion and that GCF has embodied. Scope: boost the workers’ awareness on safety and proper management of risks.
Three stars, the maximum score of the Legality Rating. It is the award assigned to GCF - Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie by the Competition and Market Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato -AGCM). An award that is handed out to companies who embody legal and ethical behaviours as daily operational methods.
In new Aquitania, along railway line 655.000 that connects Bordeaux to Irun, on the border with the Basque country. Fifteen days ago, GCF – Transalp put Suite Rapide in operation that, in Gironde, is working on the sixth site of the year to restore almost 40 km of track.
The re-construction works will be carried out by GCF, in Kosovo, also with regards to the section of Rail Route 10, the central railway line that connects the country with Serbia to the North and Macedonia to the South. In recent days, Infrakos has officially notified to the Management of Rossi Group, the assignment of the second lot: a contract of the value of 47.9 million Euros for the re-construction of the railway section between Fushë Kosovë and Mitrovica.
Italy and France closer and aware to be able to create together, promising prospects for the production sector. The new atmosphere of optimism and joint efforts was confirmed by the recent 4th Italian-French Forum of Family Enterprises that, upon IREFI’s initiative, gathered in Rome over 80 representatives of big enterprises - among which GCF – public and private bodies and institutions of the two Countries.
New innovative and high -efficiency operating machines have been delivered in recent weeks, to GCF’s Italian railway maintenance sites. They will add to Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie’s fleet – which is already counting on over 670 machines – further boosting GCF’s and Gefer’s operating capacity, in particular, in the strategic segment of railway maintenance.
Suite Rapide at work, in Normandy, in the Seine- Maritime district, to renew the extremely important line 340 000, the railway that connects the French capital with Le Havre, second French commercial port, after Marseille, and 9th European port in terms of handled containers.
Railway station of Belluno, Friday June 11th at 10:47 a.m. Italian flags and Mameli anthem sang by kindergarten students for a day that has been defined “historical” by everybody. The modern Pop 16856 train with electric traction docks at track 1 and, with its inaugural trip along 47 electrified km from Conegliano to Belluno, marks the end of an age, that of diesel rails.
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