International News
414 High-Capacity Escalators to Serve New Mumbai Metro Line
India's Mumbai Metro Rail Corp. (MMRC) is spending the equivalent of more than US$3.5 billion to install 414 escalators serving 27 stations along Metro Line 3, a new 33.5-km-long underground...
Indian Railways Seeks Last Section Of Land For Bullet Train
Indian Railways, developer of India’s bullet train project, has acquired almost 95% of required land in Gujarat, India, but has not fully taken possession of needed land in Maharashtra, Yahoo News reported...
Campaign Recognizes Efforts of VT Personnel In India
International Sourcing Exposition for Elevators & Escalators (ISEE), an industry event being held in Mumbai, has launched the “ELEVATOR MECHANICS – You Keep the World Moving” public campaign to recognize...
Hyderabad Hit With Delays On Fob Construction
Problems, including lack of response for tender invitations and untimely delays for needed work, have led to postponement of a number of foot-overbridge (FOB) projects in Hyderabad, India, The Hindu reports. The...
Busy market generates work for construction and vertical-transportation industries
KONE Providing Lifts, Escalators for London High Rise KONE has won an order to supply 15 custom-made elevators and escalators for the new “Arbor” office building at Western Yards, phase...
Contracts buoy optimism
Maspero Elevatori Handling VT Portion of UN European HQ Andrea Maspero Maspero Elevatori has been awarded a more-than-EUR2.8-million (US$3.4-million) contract for the vertical-transportation (VT) portion of renovation of the historic...
Remote Access and Application Gaps in Elevators
With developing technology, remote access to elevators emerges as a practicable option today. There are many reasons why remote access is needed: The ability of various companies to monitor and...
Vertical Transportation on Plan for India Railway Upgrade
Paromita Roy, JGM, Indian Railway Stations Development Corp., presented a blueprint of the upgrade plan for the Panchkula-Chandigarh railway station to Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker Gian Chand Gupta on June...
New Escalators Installed at Aurangabad, India, Station
A rail station in Aurangabad, India, has been improved with escalators connected to two of its platforms, meaning all five platforms are now connected with moving stairs, Lokmat reported on June 20....
Kolkata Officials Say Delayed FOB Will Open in August
Municipal officials in Kolkata, India, say a foot-overbridge (FOB) at busy traffic intersection Exide is nearing completion and should be open for public use in August, The Times of India reported on...
