Sentences with phrase «many rail operators»

CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail to market amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.

With fewer platforms available, the repair work will complicate schedules for the three rail operators that use Penn Station: the national rail corporation Amtrak and the regional commuter train operators New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail Road.

These include the largest European rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, and the region's biggest bus provider, FlixBus.

On Monday, Alberta introduced legislation that allows the energy minister to use export permits to tell truckers, pipeline companies and rail operators how much of what products can be shipped when and where.

It would direct pipeline companies, truckers and rail operators on how much oil product they ship and when.

Rail operators want long - term deals from shippers, but oil companies prefer to have the flexibility to shift to pipelines if space becomes available.

Rail operator pledges to maintain zero - carbon journeys while refocusing on cutting company - wide emissions by a quarter

Leading air and rail operators are pushing sustainability goals, with low - cost carrier Ryanair revealing a commitment to eliminate non-recyclable plastics from its services by 2023 more

Leading air and rail operators are pushing sustainability goals, with low - cost carrier Ryanair revealing a commitment to eliminate non-recyclable plastics from its services by 2023

This despite the fact that the LIRR has the lowest farebox operating ratio of the region's major rail operators.

Rail operator Northern's regional director Paul Barnfield added: «It has been a long and difficult 12 months for those who use the Settle to Carlisle railway, but we can not overstate the size of the task that Network Rail had to face.»

Rail operator pledges to maintain zero - carbon journeys while refocusing on cutting company - wide emissions by a quarter

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood kicked off the 2010 national Distracted Driving Summit today by announcing new anti-distracted driving regulations for drivers transporting hazardous materials, commercial truck and bus drivers, and rail operators, and by identifying more than 550 U.S. companies — employing 1.5 million people nationwide — that have committed to enacting anti-distracted driving employee policies in the next twelve months.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood kicked off the 2010 national Distracted Driving Summit today by announcing new anti-distracted driving regulations for drivers transporting hazardous materials, commercial truck and bus drivers, and rail operators, and by identifying more than 550 U.S. companies — employing 1.5 million people nationwide — that have committed to enacting anti-distracted driving employee policies in the next twelve months.

While the largest freight railroads generally have access to investment capital — a record $ 30 billion in 2015 — most intercity passenger and commuter rail operators depend on public funds to pay for or finance infrastructure and equipment.

This can result in additional hardship and expense on behalf of the owner if Amtrak, the national rail operator, with more than 500 destinations, is their only option for transportation to a particular area.

Looking for information relating to possible disruption to travel in April, May and June due to French rail operator SNCF industrial action?

The German national rail operator is the undisputed big daddy on which most other European rail companies are weaned.

British travellers can now book train tickets across any UK rail operator without paying a booking fee, all on one website — as leading online travel agent Expedia edges into rail.

This realisation is reflected in the fact that Amtrak, the national passenger - rail operator, has recently released record passenger figures for the last financial year.

Services into Zurich had been disrupted, with Swiss rail operator SBB announcing intercity services between Zurich and Stuttgart, in Germany, has been rerouted.

SOUTH West Trains are now the latest rail operator to team up with Eurostar.

From 2012 the luxury rail operator it will introduce special food and beverage privileges for customers in single or twin sleeping berths, which will add an extra dimension to this celebrated journey.

SNCF, the French rail operator, had to slow down its high - speed TGV service but said it would maintain 97 % of its normal operations.

The report also outlines a baseline scenario, built around these trends, to size the business potential for passenger rail in 2020, and concludes with comments on how passenger rail operators can take advantage of the trends transforming the industry landscape, and position themselves to benefit from opportunities that currently lie beyond their borders.

Having recently upgraded both its Standard Premier and Business Premier catering, Eurostar's partnership with Waitrose completes a trio of changes which will see Eurostar passengers offered the best range of refreshments in the rail operator's near 20 year history.

As Pearce points out, many rail operators are cashing in on green concerns by promoting trains vs flying.

Now Fred Pearce, author of The Guardian's Greenwash column, delves into the green claims of rail operators, and his findings are not entirely complementary.

Perhaps most encouraging, transportation companies like rail operator Network Rail and the Highways Agency have signed up to create and enhance pollinator habitats along railway verges and highways, essentially using Britain's existing network of transportation corridors to create habitat corridors that allow pollinators to move across the country and expand their habitat.

Advised on the initial acquisition of a majority stake in the national rail operator of Kenya and Uganda, Rift Valley Railways.

Dickinson Dees has won an appointment to advise Northern Rail on commercial and financial issues, with the firm set to work alongside the rail operator's current main adviser SNR Denton.

Dentons has won an appointment to Network Rail's legal panel following an adviser review that has seen the rail operator's core external roster cut from 12 law firms to five.

Stephenson Harwood advised Ambience Ventures Limited on its acquisition of a 34 per cent stake in the national rail operator of Kenya and Uganda, Rift Valley Railways...

Network Rail has invited a select list of firms to tender for a place on its legal panel, in the rail operator's first adviser review in more than three years.

This may include retail establishments, businesses, hotel operators, and some common carriers, such as bus or rail operators.

Our global network represents rail operators and manufacturers, rolling stock leasing companies, banks, private clients, and corporations.

We also represent all elements of the railroad industry — rail operators and manufacturers, rolling stock leasing companies, banks, private clients, and corporations — throughout the world.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has assisted rail operator Abellio in mobilising its operations for the new East Anglia franchise, which started on 16 October 2016.

Plus, many rail operators give discounts to children, students, seniors, military personnel and others.

CALGARY, Feb 18 (Reuters)- Canadian Pacific Railway Co, the country's second - biggest rail operator, is considering what to do with C$ 2 billion ($ 1.83 billion) in surplus real estate, its chief executive said on Tuesday as he defended plans to impose a surcharge on oil tankers he considers unsafe.

Not exact matches

• Ferrocarril Mexicano, Mexico's largest railroad operator, is close to reaching a deal to acquire Florida East Coast Railway, a Jacksonville, Fla. - based rail system operator, for more than $ 2 billion, including debt, according to Reuters.

Perth - based technology company DTI Group has won a contract to provide its surveillance systems to an Irish rail car operator for an undisclosed sum.

This year, the company has hatched deals with Canada's Via Rail and several Mexican bus operators to serve all of North America.

The Dutch company and SMRT Services, a subsidiary of Singapore's rail and bus network operator SMRT, announced a joint - venture agreement on Wednesday, and plan to have pods operational on the Southeast Asian island by the end of the year.

I pay my taxes... I just vote against those who desire to continually raise them and send us spiraling into economic oblivion just so they, their union buddies, and their bedfellow corporate friends (e.g. the rail line operators) can get rich.

The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, operator of Buffalo's commuter bus and rail lines, wants to redevelop all its train stations in the city north of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

Bailouts of rail operating companies, such as that recently offered by Chris Grayling to two operators, rightly attract public criticism.

Sir Richard Branson's company, which successfully fought the government's initial decision to award the franchise to rival train operator First Group, has cut a deal with ministers which will see Virgin Rail run the lucrative train line until the end of 2014.

Mario Cuomo famously said «you campaign in poetry; you govern in prose» and if he was the orator, his son is the operator, the one who passes state budgets on time and — as when he resolved a threatened Long Island Rail Road strike last year — makes trains run on schedule.

Controversy continues over a rail - to - trail plan in Ulster County amid an agreement announced Tuesday between a railroad operator and the county executive.